Jean Cocteau House Museum
After five years of reconstruction work, the house museum of the poet and filmmaker Jean Cocteau, the contemporary of Charlie Chaplin, Stravinsky, Picasso, Coco Chanel and other legendary 20th-century figures, has opened its doors in the French town of Milly-la-Forêt. Cocteau and the French actor Jean Marais bought the house surrounded by a picturesque garden in 1947. During the 17 years he spent here, Cocteau wrote a number of his most legendary works. In his autobiographical La Difficulté de l'Etre (Difficulty of Being) Cocteau subsequently described the house as his retreat. The idea of restoring the building belongs to the patron of the project Pierre Bergé, the former business associate and life-long romantic partner of the legendary French fashion designer Yves Saint Laurent; Bergé purchased the house in 2002 with the objective of creating a place to remember and rediscover Jean Cocteau. The artist's second-floor study and bedroom still look as if Cocteau had only left the room for a moment. Alongside many other exciting features, the second-floor rooms also house some original drawings by Chaplin, Picasso and Proust. One of the halls has been transformed into a cinema auditorium where a number of legendary movies by Cocteau - his La Belle et la Bête (1946) and Les Parents Terribles (1948) to name a few) are screened. The museum also features two exhibition halls; one of them dedicated to Cocteau's own work, the other regularly hosting temporary exhibitions; a show of Cocteau's portraits by Man Ray, Modigliani and Warhol is currently on view here. The museum is less than an hour's drive from Paris.
15 Rue du Lau
91490 Milly-la-Forêt
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