Les Nouveaux Jeunes: (named Les Six after the ‘Russian Five’. The six composers were: Georges Auric, Louis Durey, Arthur Honneger, Darius Milhaud, Francis Poulenc, Germaine Tailleferre), Francis Steegmuller, Cocteau: A Biography, p. 238
Les Six: ibid.
‘In the bars of …’: Paul Morand, ‘Magie Noire’, in Edmonde Charles-Roux, The World of Coco Chanel: Friends, Fashion, Fame, p. 223
‘jazz produced such sublime …’: ibid.
‘An original artist cannot …’: Jean Cocteau, Entre Picasso et Radiguet, p. 57
‘Debussy played in French …’: ibid., p. 58
‘I accept Euripides …’: Comte de Lautréamont, Poésies, in Maldoror and The Complete Works, p. 223
‘Poetry must be made by all …’: ibid., p. 244
‘dismal hacks … Baudelaire …’: ibid., p. 231
‘Personal poetry has had its day …’: ibid., p. 232
‘We say sound things … extraordinary ones’: ibid., p. 250
‘a real wedding’: John Richardson, A Life of Picasso, vol. III: The Triumphant Years, 1917–1932, p. 86
‘Lunch at the Meurice …’: ibid., p. 85
‘second naturalistic period’: Gertrude Stein, ‘Picasso’ (1938), in Gertrude Stein, Picasso: The Complete Writings, p. 70
‘the serenity of perfect beauty …’: ibid., p. 71
‘comrade behind the lines … liaison officer’: Ornella Volta, Satie Seen through His Letters, p. 157
‘Pope of Surrealism’: Mark Polizzotti, Revolution of the Mind: The Life of André Breton (2nd edn), p. 182
‘Va-t-en, Marcel! … too Victor Hugo’: Richardson, A Life of Picasso, vol. III, p. 102
‘radiating hostility’: Adrienne Monnier, The Very Rich Hours of Adrienne Monnier, p. 456
‘My old pard …’: Richardson, A Life of Picasso, vol. III, p. 96
‘His little room …’: Jean Cocteau, Professional Secrets: An Autobiography of Jean Cocteau, p. 73
‘heard a loud noise … sheet and removed’: Giorgio de Chirico, The Memoirs of Giorgio de Chirico, p. 85
‘Paris went charmingly off its head’: Alistair Horne, Seven Ages of Paris, p. 365
‘How am I supposed to last …’: Jacques Vaché, Lettres de guerre (14.11.18), p. 25
‘To launch a manifesto … towards community’: André Breton, Dossier Dada, p. 33
‘Every pictorial or plastic work …’: ibid.
‘the same currents …’: Polizzotti, Revolution of the Mind (2nd edn), p. 82
‘on very bad terms with everyone …’: Volta, Satie Seen through His Letters, p. 174
‘Auric Satie with …’: ibid., p. 175
à la noix: ibid.
‘My feeling – altogether disinterested …’: Polizzotti, Revolution of the Mind (2nd edn), p. 84
‘bells, beautiful princesses …’: ibid.
‘the kind of people …’: ibid., p. 86
‘poem-event’: ibid., p. 87
‘a poet’s noble and faraway gaze …’: ibid., p. 91
‘On na mène pas la vache …’: Dominique Bona, Gala: La Muse redoutable, p. 119
‘Ils ont des armes …’: Paul Éluard, ‘Perspective’, Mourir de ne pas mourir, in Paul Éluard, Capitale de la douleur, p. 73
‘For me, poetry, art stop being …’: Polizzotti, Revolution of the Mind (2nd edn), p. 87
‘a poor, abandoned, enlightened man’: Polizzotti, Revolution of the Mind (1st edn), p. 98
‘Perhaps I shall write a ballet …’: Steegmuller, Cocteau, p. 239
‘a man cut in two … knocking at the window’: Polizzotti, Revolution of the Mind (2nd edn), p. 93
‘spoken thought’: ibid., p. 94
‘À quoi bon ces grands enthousiasmes …’: André Breton and Philippe Soupault, Les Champs magnétiques, p. 27
‘Les couloirs des grands hôtels …’: ibid., p. 87
‘Ma jeunesse en fauteuil à roulettes …’: ibid, p. 81 n.
‘the moment at the dawn of …’: Polizzotti, Revolution of the Mind (2nd edn), p. 99
‘Auntie’: Gertrude Stein, The Autobiography of Alice B. Toklas, pp. 207–8
‘Everybody was on the streets …’: ibid., p. 208
‘Here is General Pershing …’: Steegmuller, Cocteau, p. 237
‘JAZZ-BAND’: 4 August 1919, in Cocteau, Entre Picasso et Radiguet, pp. 99–102
‘Mais il y avait encore quelque chose …’: ibid., p. 99
‘contacts sauvages …’: ibid., p. 101
‘drivel’: Polizzotti, Revolution of the Mind (2nd edn), p. 102
‘People these days no longer …’: ibid.
‘cover him with flowers …’: Francis Carco and Jean-Paul Crespelle, From Montmartre to the Latin Quarter, p. 293
‘With Modigliani … burying their youth’: ibid., p. 296