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The official emblem of the Priory of Sion is partly based on the fleur-de-lis, which was a symbol particularly associated with the French monarchy. [1]The Prieuré de Sion (French pronunciation: [pʁijœʁe də sjɔ̃]), translated as Priory of Sion, was a fraternal organisation founded in France and dissolved in 1956 by Pierre Plantard in his failed attempt to create a prestigious neo ...
Jean Maurice Eugène Clément Cocteau (UK: / ˈ k ɒ k t oʊ / KOK-toh, US: / k ɒ k ˈ t oʊ / kok-TOH; French: [ʒɑ̃ mɔʁis øʒɛn klemɑ̃ kɔkto]; 5 July 1889 – 11 October 1963) was a French poet, playwright, novelist, designer, film director, visual artist and critic.
The Jean Cocteau Museum/Séverin Wunderman Collection is a museum in Menton, on the French Riviera, in the Alpes-Maritimes department. Dedicated to the French artist Jean Cocteau , it incorporates the collection of American businessman and Cocteau enthusiast Séverin Wunderman.
The Jean Cocteau House at Milly-la-Forêt. The Jean Cocteau House was the residence of the French poet, artist, playwright and film maker Jean Cocteau (1889–1963), which he purchased with the film actor Jean Marais in 1947, and where he created many of his later works before his death in 1963.
The 13th century keep of Gisors. It was during his period as a farmer that he employed and got to know Roger Lhomoy - Lhomoy had previously worked since 1929 as a tourist guide at the Château de Gisors in Normandy and claimed to have discovered under the tower donjon in March 1946, a secret entrance to a long basement thirty meters long, nine meters wide, and approximately four and a half ...
Jean Cocteau: A Life, original title Jean Cocteau, is a biography about the French writer and filmmaker Jean Cocteau. It was written by Claude Arnaud and published by éditions Gallimard on 25 August 2003. Yale University Press published it in English on 27 September 2016. [1] [2] [3]
The Order of Sion was a mediaeval order of canons which, according to a papal bull of the 12th century, had abbeys on Mount Sion in Jerusalem, on Mount Carmel, in Southern Italy , and in France. The Order occupied its "mother" abbey, the Abbey de Notre Dame du Mont Sion, built on the foundations of the original apostolic Cenacle , or Coenaculum ...
Les Chevaliers de la Table ronde (The Knights of the Round Table) is a 1937 play by the French dramatist Jean Cocteau. In it, Merlin is an old and cruel enchanter who manipulates the court of Arthur with the help of a demon. [1] [2] The Paris premiere took place on 14 October 1937 at the Théâtre de l'Œuvre, with Michel Vitold as Merlin. [3]