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Les Enfants Terribles - Jean Cocteau

This picture was taken in Geneve in 2009.

Jean Cocteau was a French writer, artist and filmmaker.
Les Enfants Terribles (The Holy Terrors, English translation) was first published in 1929.
The novel was made into a film of the same name, a collaboration between Cocteau and director Jean-Pierre Melville, in 1950.
Les Enfants Terribles is also the third installment of the Opera trigoly by Philip Glass, based on Cocteau' s works.

"What uniform can I wear to hide my heavy heart? It is too heavy. It will always show.
Jacques felt himself growing gloomy again. He was well aware that to live on earth a man must follow its fashions, and hearts were no longer worn."