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?Delightful reading, brilliant, witty, chic and profound. Colette, Piaf, Sachs, Proust, Appollinaire et al are presented for a few brief moments like characters coming to life at the footlights.? ? Irish Times ?He (Cocteau) makes no effort to convince the reader that his portraits of Parisian nobilities are true to life. He cheerfully agrees that what one presents as a portrait is in reality a portrait of oneself.? ? New Statesman ?Delightful ... What drama and bravura Cocteau can bring to his portraiture! Shrewdness, fantasy and charitableness are admirably mixed in this book and at all times Cocteau responds with spirit to those famous words of encouragement of Diaghilev: ?Surprise me?? ? Punch ?This little haystack of a book contains quite a number of needles ... in their unstudied extravagant way they vividly recreate the personal and artistic presences of Cocteau?s ?monstres sacres?.? ? Scotsman ?Attractive, approachable ... Everything is light, easy, and, for all that, penetrating. The showman, showing others, shows himself.? ? TLS

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Jean Cocteau is regarded as one of France's greatest men of arts and letters. A multi-faceted talent and a recipient of the Légion d'honneur, he achieved distinction as a poet, playwright, and critic as well as an artist, illustrator, composer, actor, and internationally acclaimed filmmaker. He was the author of La Belle et la Bête, Les Enfants Terribles, Opium, and Thomas The Impostor.

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