COCTEAU Jean - Lot 106

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COCTEAU Jean - Lot 106
COCTEAU Jean Autographed MANUSCRIT signed "Jean Cocteau", Souvenir de Laurent Tailhade,[1948]; 2 pages in-4 with blue ballpoint pen on the back of headed sheets Maison du Bailli Milly. Cocteau's fine tribute to the man who launched his poetic fortune. It was on April 4, 1908, on the stage of the Femina theatre that Jean Cocteau's poetic glory was born. At the age of 18, he had not yet published anything when the famous tragedian Édouard de Max (1869-1924), seduced by the young man, decided to finance and organize a reading of his poems in the presence of the All-Paris. It was Laurent Tailhade (1854-1919) who was in charge of introducing the budding poet to the public.] Cocteau evokes the 1948 session.... "Laurent Tailhade had only one terrible eye that penetrated souls like a screwdriver. His round face ended in a point because of a straight grey tassel. I keep this polemicist more than just recognition. It symbolizes to me a time when the politics of letters was as fierce as politics. ... I would like all writers to resemble him and remind me of Laurent Tailhade, armed with his red pencil and his Cyclops eye. Two typed letters from the Academy of Poets are attached; March 23 and May 24, 1948, inviting Cocteau to participate in the tribute issue to Laurent Tailhade, the second one informing him that his article arrived too late.
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