Chapelle Cocteau - Chapel Notre-Dame-de-Jérusalem

Jean Cocteau is one of the most famous French artists from the last century. If he had lived today he would probably been called a multimedia artist. This brillant artist was a poet, anovelist, he wrote plays, articles, ballet, opera. He also made thousands of drawings, paintings, modelled clay, was a sculptore, and designed costumes.

Most of us know him for the famous movie Beauty and the Beast / La Belle et la Bête which he made in 1946. By many considered one of the best 10 movies ever made.

Cocteau was born in 1889 and died in 1963.

He decorated many Chapelles in France and the
Chapel Notre-Dame-de-Jérusalem also called Chapelle Cocteau was the last. He never got it finished and it was his friend and spiritual son, Edouard Dermi who finished his work. The floor is by the ceramist Roger Pelissier.

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