Jean CocteauFrench, 1889–1963Sans titre
May one see it?
Unknown
Musée d'art et d'histoire
Villefranche-sur-Mer, France
The owner is known; whether it is on view today is not.
- In this state since
- Source
- The museum
Particulars
- Accession number
- 89.2.84
Meanwhile, in the life of Jean Cocteau
The whole life1950–1960s
Defending the right to conscientious objection
In the 1950s and 1960s he consistently defended the right to refuse military service on grounds of conscience, notably speaking up for Henri Martin.
1955
Elected to the Académie française
In 1955 he was elected to the Académie française and to the Royal Academy of Belgium.
3 March 1955 · Membership
Académie Française
8 January 1955 – 11 October 1963 · Membership
Academie Royale de Langue et de littérature Françaises
3 March 1955 – 11 October 1963
Post: seat 31 of the Académie française
1957
The Bastion in Menton: a museum for his work
The mayor of Menton, Francis Palmero, invited him to transform the Bastion, an abandoned seventeenth-century fort on the town’s harbour wall, into a museum for his work; Cocteau designed pebble mosaics for the building and selected works for display. The museum opened in 1966, three years after his death.
