Word: cocteau
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Throughout that world, everybody is passionately working and planning. Pathe is readying Le Bataillon du Ciel, whose real-life hero will be chief of French parachutists, one-armed Colonel Bourgoin. Gaumont plans to have Jean Cocteau direct his own La Belle et la Bête, assisted by ace director Marcel Pagnol. Artist Films is planning productions of Maupassant's Boule de Suif and Dostoevsky's Idiot. In Nice, Jacqueline Audry is directing France's sensational new eight-year-old Conrad in Les Malheurs de Sophie...
...Fate), radical novelist, wrote one book (published in Switzerland as Les Noyers de l'Altembourg), lived with the Maquis and F.F.I., became a colonel. Wounded, captured, liberated in time's nick during the invasion, thin, nervy Malraux is now fighting at the front. ¶ Jean Cocteau, famed Surrealist specialist in films and plays, had trouble when collaborationists released rats and tear gas in the theater where one of his plays was put on; they also punched his nose when he refused to salute a pro-German parade...
...Adolf Hitler. A brave letter appeared in Figaro: "Paris, which in June of 1940 miraculously escaped trial by fire and the horror of destruction, is unexpectedly menaced by new destruction." The letter was signed by a group of intellectuals and painters, including Jean Giraudoux, Paul Valery, Paul Morand, Jean Cocteau, Andre Derain. The man in the street, passing the wreckers at work, simply muttered: "Regardez-moi ces assassins," and looked, as he seldom looked in the years of freedom, at the soaring crags of the Eiffel Tower, which the Nazis had threatened to tear down for the sake...
...Jean Cocteau (Enfants Terribles, Le Boeuf sur le Toit), who early in World War II considered it the duty of a writer "to make himself . . . into the form of a zero and to pass that ring over the finger of France," was still pretty much a zero...
...ruins. They wondered first about trapped U. S. citizens, trapped British subjects, French politicians, generals, diplomats, finally got around to wondering about French writers. In particular, they wondered what had become of Aviator-Novelists Andre Malraux, Antoine de Saint Exupery, Surrealist Novelist Louis Aragon, Dadaist Cut-up Jean Cocteau. Thanks to the human dislocation, the censorship, the splitting of France into occupied and unoccupied areas, it was almost impossible to find...