“I have a piece of great and sad news to tell you: I am dead.”

— Jean Cocteau

"Visite" in Discours du Grand Sommeil (1920); later published in Collected Works Vol. 4 (1947)

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French poet, novelist, dramatist, designer, boxing manager … 1889–1963

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