Uomo Universalis
France mourned when Jean Cocteau died on 11 October 1963. In one blow, the country lost a great and internationally acclaimed poet, novelist, dramatist, designer and film maker. His fame began in his twenties and lasted until today. 
Jean Maurice Eugène Clément Cocteau (5 July 1889 – 11 October 1963)
Cocteau was a truely universal artist, who seemlessly combined forms of art during an enormously productive life. The great volume of works we can see today are of a consistent quality and coherence. It is no secret that Cocteau was more than moderately interested in things of an esoteric nature. It has often been suggested that there is more to see than you can see in some of his work. Others have gone even further. Pierre Plantard, in his ‘Dossiers Secrets‘ claimed Cocteau was a Grandmaster of the Priory of Sion, and thus protector of the ancient Merovingian Bloodline. The bubble of the ‘Dossiers Secrets‘ was burst in recent years but not the attention for the more enigmatice angle of Jean Cocteau’s work.