Jean COCTEAU invites SARTRE and BEAUVOIR to Milly-la-Forêt.

“My dear Sartre, I am finally out of this harmful clinic. I wish you, I wish us to keep our balance in this hustle and bustle where everyone pushes us from right or left. »

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Jean Cocteau (1889.1963)

Autograph letter signed to Jean Paul Sartre.

A page in-4°.

Milly the Forest. January 2, 1955.

Cocteau, recovering from his heart attack, invites his friends Jean-Paul Sartre and Simone de Beauvoir to Milly la Forêt.

Rare testimony to the friendly connection between these three major personalities of the intellectual and literary scene of the 20th century.

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“My dear Sartre, I am finally out of this harmful clinic. I wish you, I wish us to keep our balance in this hustle and bustle where everyone pushes us from right or left.

Tell Simone [de Beauvoir] that I kiss her and let's see each other . Why don't you come with her to lunch one day in my country? An hour's drive and a few good hours of friendship. Write to me if possible. Nothing would make me happier. Your Jean Cocteau. »

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In 1954, Cocteau suffered a first heart attack from which he recovered weakened, despite his convalescence in Santo Sospir.

The wishes for balance desired by Cocteau for this year 1955 will be rewarded by his election to the French Academy on March 3, in the chair of Jérôme Tharaud.