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COCTEAU Jean (1889 - 1963)
Autograph MANUSCRIT, La Princesse de Clèves, with letters and documents, [1944 - 1961]| 83 leaves in-4 written on the front| plus 6 pages in-4 or in-8, all mounted on vellum paper and bound in one volume in-fol. soft red morocco, upper board titled in gold, lining and endpapers in mouse grey box, folder and case (Loutrel).
A largely unpublished manuscript, with many corrections, of the first version of the screenplay written by Jean Cocteau after the novel by Madame de La Fayette.
The idea of adapting The Princess of Cleves was born after the great success in 1943 of the film L'Eternel retour, directed by Jean DELANNOY on a script by Cocteau. After Tristan and Isolde, the choice of the famous novel by Madame de La Fayette allowed for a new variation on the theme of sublimated love. Jean Cocteau then realized a cut and dialogues on the sheets presented here, which can be dated from 1944 - 1945 since "the adaptation of The Princess of Cleves was barely finished when the landing of the Allies and the Liberation took place" (Jean Delannoy, Aux yeux du souvenir, Les Belles Lettres, 1998). Sixteen years later, the project was relaunched with a new cast and a revised script with the help of Delannoy. Compared to this final version, which was used for the shooting in 1961 (published by l'Avant-Scène cinéma), the present manuscript contains important variants, whether in the description of the sequences or in the dialogues. There are also more than 800 corrections.
The pages of the manuscript are divided into two columns: on the left, the stage directions and indications, and on the right the dialogues.
Some indications: "One month before the death of the king. Flambeaux.
Traveling - with torches. The guests at the ball bowing to the camera". The script is accompanied by a draft cast on which one can read: "Nemours - Marais", "Princesse de Clèves -
Darrieux", "The Prince of C - Gerard Philippe". The roles of the Clèves were finally interpreted by Marina Vlady and Jean Marais, while the role of Nemours was played by Jean-François Poron.
There are 4 autograph letters, 3 of which are signed by Jean Cocteau, addressed to the director Jean Delannoy, as well as a distribution project, very different from the one of the film.
Autograph MANUSCRIT, La Princesse de Clèves, with letters and documents, [1944 - 1961]| 83 leaves in-4 written on the front| plus 6 pages in-4 or in-8, all mounted on vellum paper and bound in one volume in-fol. soft red morocco, upper board titled in gold, lining and endpapers in mouse grey box, folder and case (Loutrel).
A largely unpublished manuscript, with many corrections, of the first version of the screenplay written by Jean Cocteau after the novel by Madame de La Fayette.
The idea of adapting The Princess of Cleves was born after the great success in 1943 of the film L'Eternel retour, directed by Jean DELANNOY on a script by Cocteau. After Tristan and Isolde, the choice of the famous novel by Madame de La Fayette allowed for a new variation on the theme of sublimated love. Jean Cocteau then realized a cut and dialogues on the sheets presented here, which can be dated from 1944 - 1945 since "the adaptation of The Princess of Cleves was barely finished when the landing of the Allies and the Liberation took place" (Jean Delannoy, Aux yeux du souvenir, Les Belles Lettres, 1998). Sixteen years later, the project was relaunched with a new cast and a revised script with the help of Delannoy. Compared to this final version, which was used for the shooting in 1961 (published by l'Avant-Scène cinéma), the present manuscript contains important variants, whether in the description of the sequences or in the dialogues. There are also more than 800 corrections.
The pages of the manuscript are divided into two columns: on the left, the stage directions and indications, and on the right the dialogues.
Some indications: "One month before the death of the king. Flambeaux.
Traveling - with torches. The guests at the ball bowing to the camera". The script is accompanied by a draft cast on which one can read: "Nemours - Marais", "Princesse de Clèves -
Darrieux", "The Prince of C - Gerard Philippe". The roles of the Clèves were finally interpreted by Marina Vlady and Jean Marais, while the role of Nemours was played by Jean-François Poron.
There are 4 autograph letters, 3 of which are signed by Jean Cocteau, addressed to the director Jean Delannoy, as well as a distribution project, very different from the one of the film.