COCTEAU JEAN: (1889-1963) French poet, playwright, novelist, artist, filmmaker and critic. A ...

COCTEAU JEAN: (1889-1963) French poet, playwright, novelist, artist, filmmaker and critic. A good illustrated A.L.S., Jean, one page, 4to, Santo-Sospir, Saint-Jean-Cap-Ferrat, 29th September 1957, to Andre [Fraigneau], in French. Cocteau writes, in full, ´Ceci, pour Andre, pour t´embrasser avant de prendre le train vers toi. J´arriverai le 8 et le 9 j´aimerais dejeuner ensemble. Ce matin Villefranche m´a dicerene le titre de Citoyen d´Honneur. C´etait beaucoup, en face de cet hotel Welcome ou j´ecrivais les poemes d´Opera´ (Translation: ´This is for Andre, to kiss you before I get on the train to you. I'll be arriving on the 8th and on the 9th I'd like to have lunch together. This morning Villefranche awarded me the title of Honorary Citizen. It was a great honour, in front of the Welcome hotel where I wrote the poems of Opera´). To the left of the page Cocteau has drawn one of his familiar profiles of a head, attractively executed in blue and red crayons. Some very light, extremely minor age wear, VG

Andre Fraigneau (1905-1991) French writer, editor and publisher who collaborated with Cocteau on the publication Jean Marais - A Discussion about Cinematography (1951).

Cocteau stayed at the Hotel Welcome in Villefranche-sur-mer from 1924 to 1935, during which time his collection of poems Opéra (1927) was published.