33 - [COCTEAU, Jean (1889–1963)].

[COCTEAU, Jean (1889–1963)]. Anonymous letter signed with a heart, [May 1940], to Jean MARAIS; 1 page, in-4. Letter from a close friend (or perhaps a close female friend?) regarding Cocteau’s distress at Jean Marais’s absence. Note: [The letter was written after the revival (April 19, 1940) at the Bouffes-Parisiens of Cocteau’s *Les Monstres sacrés*, starring Yvonne de Bray and Jany Holt (who had premiered Claude-André Puget’s *Le Petit ange de rien du tout* in January)]. “Fate is relentless, but one must not ‘touch the Monstres,’ and Jean touches too much of fate, too much poetry. But the fire is more beautiful, more mysteriously violent than the false ‘modern’ light of Puget’s wretched little play *Le Petit ange de rien du tout*, where Jany becomes so small after having been so beautiful. Jean is very brave, and I love him so much, but dear Jeannot, he misses you so much—for him, the theater is you—and he suffers so much at the Bouffes when he has to walk past your empty dressing room. I send you my love with all my [heart].”