Jean COCTEAU and the immorality of children's songs.

Jean Cocteau (1889.1963)

Autograph letter signed to André Figueras.

One page in-8°. Milly the Forest. September 24, 1950.

“ The pink library has worried mothers since Freud. »

Taking the immorality of children's songs as an example, Cocteau defends the very essence of the French language.

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“My Dear Figueras, A beautiful and well-said thing is always a benefit to young people. The moral point of view is absurd. It would then be necessary to remove children's songs from the childhood curriculum, which are all double-meaning and obscene . “He runs he runs the ferret”; “the baker has money”; “Do you know how to plant cabbages”; “By the light of the moon” etc.

The pink library has worried mothers since Freud. They would do better to be saddened by new editions whose images remove the charm of the text. Your Jean Cocteau. Purity is a purity of the material and not of the form that we make it take. »