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Cocteau
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Coc·teau  (kk-t, kôk-), Jean 1889-1963.
French author and filmmaker who worked in nearly every artistic medium but is best known for the novel Les Enfants Terrible (1929), the play The Infernal Machine (1934), and the film Beauty and the Beast (1945).

Cocteau (French) [kɔkto]
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(Biographies / Cocteau, Jean (1889-1963) M, French, THEATRE: dramatist, WRITING: novelist, WRITING: poet, FILMS AND TV: director) Jean (ʒɑ̃). 1889-1963, French dramatist, novelist, poet, critic, designer, and film director. His works include the novel Les Enfants terribles (1929) and the play La Machine infernale (1934)
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Noun1.Cocteau - French writer and film maker who worked in many artistic media (1889-1963)Cocteau - French writer and film maker who worked in many artistic media (1889-1963)


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Jean Cocteau, Jean Genet, Oscar Wilde, Gertrude Stein, and countless other writers and artists lived openly gay lives in France back when such a life elsewhere meant at minimum concealment and alienation.
 
 
 
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