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We seek him here, we seek him there,
Those Frenchies seek him everywhere.
Is he in heaven?—Is he in hell?
That demmed, elusive Pimpernel?
Jean Cocteau
Born: July 5, 1889
Died: October 11, 1963 (aged 74)
Bio: Jean Maurice Eugène Clément Cocteau was a French writer, designer, playwright, artist and filmmaker. Cocteau is best known for his novel Les Enfants Terribles, and the films Blood of a Poet, Les Parents Terribles, Beauty and the Beast and Orpheus.
Known for:
- Orpheus (1950)
- Beauty and the Beast (1946)
- The Blood of a Poet (1932)
- Testament of Orpheus (1960)
- Les Parents terribles (1948)
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