Jean Cocteau

Birth Name:
Jean Maurice Eugène Clément Cocteau
Birth Date:
July 5, 1889
Birth Place:
Maisons-Laffitte, France
Death Date:
October 11, 1963
Place of Death:
15 Rue du Lau, 91490 Milly-la-Forêt, France
Age:
74
Cause of Death:
Heart attack
Cemetery Name:
Chapelle Saint-Blaise-des-Simples
Claim to Fame:
Writers and Poets
Jean Cocteau was a French poet, playwright, novelist, designer, filmmaker, visual artist and critic whose best known works include the novel Les Enfants Terribles, the stage plays La Voix Humaine, Les Parents Terribles and the films The Blood of a Poet (1930), Les Parents Terribles (1948), Beauty and the Beast (1946) and Orpheus (1949). He is considered by many to be one of avant-garde's most successful and influential filmmakers.

Cemetery Information:

Final Resting Place:

Chapelle Saint-Blaise-des-Simples

Rue de l'Amiral de Graville

Milly-la-Forêt, , 91490

France

Europe

Grave Location:

Chapelle Saint-Blaise-des-Simples

Grave Location Description

He is located inside this simple country chapel that Cocteau personally decorated before his death.

Grave Location GPS

48.3992667, 2.4722993

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