Jean Desbordes
Jean Desbordes was born in the the Vosges in 1906, and deceased with Paris.
It is resulting from an old jarnacaise family and Protestant woman. His/her grandfather, Élie Desbordes, held an ancestral trade of hardware and it was during many years first assistant with the mayor of Jarnac.
Friend of Jean Cocteau with which it maintained an love affair, this last prefaces, and launches bruyamment, his poetic test I adore in June 1928 (Grasset Editions) and reserves to him even a role with the cinema in its film the Blood of a poet, realized in 1930. Jean Cocteau will carry out a series of portraits of him which exposed with illustrations for Oedipus-King and will be published in 1929 to 213 specimens under the title 25 drawings of a sleeper the representative deadened in costume of sailor.
Jean Desbordes will publish in addition the tragic actors , a novel in 1931, the moult , a comedy in 1938 and the true face of the marquis de Sade in 1939.
He dies in Paris under the German Occupation. Ordering a network of resistant under the pseudo one of Duroc, he dies under torture without to have spoken on July 5th, 1944 (Jean Cocteau by Claude Arnaud).
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