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Jean Cocteau

1889 - 1963

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Jean Maurice Eugène Clément Cocteau (UK: KOK-toh, US: kok-TOH; French: [ʒɑ̃ mɔʁis øʒɛn klemɑ̃ kɔkto]; 5 July 1889 – 11 October 1963) was a French poet, playwright, novelist, designer, film director, visual artist and critic. He was one of the foremost artists of the surrealist, avant-garde, and Dadaist movements and an influential figure in early 20th-century art. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Jean Cocteau has received more than 2,568,705 page views. His biography is available in 85 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 83 in 2019). Jean Cocteau is the 118th most popular writer (up from 124th in 2019), the 121st most popular biography from France (up from 138th in 2019) and the 27th most popular French Writer.

Jean Cocteau is most famous for his work in the film industry, specifically his work on the film "Beauty and the Beast."

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  • 85

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 10.11

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  • 3.47

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Notable Works

Opium
1930
La machine infernale
1934
Orphée
Foreign Language Study
This student edition consists of the French text of Cocteau's Orphée with English introduction and explanatory notes.
1927
Les enfants terribles
1925
Jean Cocteau
1945
Thomas l'imposteur
1923

Among WRITERS

Among writers, Jean Cocteau ranks 118 out of 7,302. Before him are Jean de La Fontaine, George Bernard Shaw, E. T. A. Hoffmann, Sully Prudhomme, Federico García Lorca, and Anatole France. After him are Guy de Maupassant, Charles Bukowski, Ivo Andrić, Charlotte Brontë, Lewis Carroll, and Ahmad ibn Hanbal.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1889, Jean Cocteau ranks 7. Before him are Adolf Hitler, Charlie Chaplin, Martin Heidegger, Ludwig Wittgenstein, António de Oliveira Salazar, and Jawaharlal Nehru. After him are Edwin Hubble, Paul Karrer, Ante Pavelić, Anna Akhmatova, Arnold J. Toynbee, and Vaslav Nijinsky. Among people deceased in 1963, Jean Cocteau ranks 6. Before him are John F. Kennedy, Édith Piaf, Lee Harvey Oswald, Pope John XXIII, and Robert Frost. After him are Georges Braque, Aldous Huxley, Robert Schuman, Ngo Dinh Diem, Tristan Tzara, and C. S. Lewis.

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In France

Among people born in France, Jean Cocteau ranks 121 out of 6,770. Before him are Marie Thérèse of France (1778), Charles VII of France (1403), Sully Prudhomme (1839), Charles VIII of France (1470), Roman Polanski (1933), and Anatole France (1844). After him are Francis I, Holy Roman Emperor (1708), Guy de Maupassant (1850), Hugh Capet (940), Charles VI of France (1368), Thérèse of Lisieux (1873), and Louis XII of France (1462).

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Among WRITERS In France

Among writers born in France, Jean Cocteau ranks 27. Before him are George Sand (1804), Marquis de Sade (1740), André Gide (1869), Jean de La Fontaine (1621), Sully Prudhomme (1839), and Anatole France (1844). After him are Guy de Maupassant (1850), Paul Verlaine (1844), François Villon (1431), Alexandre Dumas fils (1824), Petronius (27), and Jean Racine (1639).

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