Poème autographe de Jean Cocteau intitulé "Rondel de la sultane embarassée [sic]" avec deux corrections manuscrites et contenu dans son recueil de poèmes Le Prince Frivole
s. n.|s. l. s.d. (ca 1909)|24.50 x 25 cm|une page
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An early poem by Jean Cocteau, 15 lines written in black on a thick leaf, titled "Rondel de la sultane embarassée". Later published in his poem collection "Le Prince frivole" (Mercure de France en 1910), his second book. This manuscript of Le Prince frivole was thought to have been lost: "The original manuscript in Cocteau's hand is missing" (Complete Poetic Works, Bibliothèque de la Pléiade, page 1842). This collection of poems was praised by Marcel Proust, who hailed Jean Cocteau as a: "twenty-year-old Banville who awaits a higher destiny". Cocteau later discarded it and went so far as to forbid its republication.
"Scheherazade knows not How to end her last tale! The heavy aroma creeps and rises... Whose FALSEchalant body is far away
["Shéhérazade ne sait point Comment finir son dernier conte ! Le lourd arôme rampe et monte... Dont son corps FALSEchalent est loin]
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A thousand and one times dawn has come For the old man counts them all But now fate has won her over And her story has come to an end Sheerazade knows not...
[Mille et une fois l'aube a point Car le vieux despose les compte Mais voici que le sort la dompte Et pose à son histoire un point Shéhérazade ne sait point ..."]