1592997900000 1321878826000 Standard Record object-110000101 1747159852502 1684841462000 1747159409017 adlib fitz-online adlib-object-110000101 https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/id/object/110000101 220bd53b-f319-3172-8573-4937d2911df5 6 person reference agent-188375 adlib-agent-188375 e202f1b5-4f86-3ab2-8828-5ccebee14a27 Pommerand, Gaberand content description Autograph letter signed "Jean Cocteau". Letter is addressed to “Mon cher ami” but there is a photocopy of the original envelope which makes clear that the recipient is Gabriel Pommerand 1926-1972 (the French actor who starred in the 1947 film Desordre along with Cocteau) and on which Cocteau gives his address as "St. Jean Cap Ferrat, Alpes Maritimes". In part (translated): "...With this French bank note...I am sending you the first small contribution. I am very poor, but it is very important that the "fauves" believe me to be rich. I tell you this for the sole purpose of emphasizing the smallness of the sum, but you must understand that it comes from the heart...and has no other purpose except that it may remove a small shadow from your face which only seeks the light. I feel much less lonely since I imagine you strolling through the byways and thinking of me, he who detests the no-man's land in which people are classified, the very people who love the most to clasp friendly hands and enter the dance of life...". In a cryptic postscript at top, Cocteau writes: "...All we can do is acknowledge ourselves to be members of the sect and consider ourselves to be 'verso' of what would normally be 'recto'". Alexander Auctions considered that “Cocteau refers here to the ‘underground’ status of gays within ‘mainstream’ society.” Robinson/Cocteau 1 accession number Robinson/Cocteau 110000101 priref 110000101 uri https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/id/object/110000101 https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/id/object/110000101 reference agent-149638 adlib-agent-149638 7376d833-d0a7-3be0-916e-9c892b7a24d8 The Fitzwilliam Museum 1955 1955 1955 Jean Cocteau to Gabriel Pommerand object OBJECT