Jean COCTEAU. Poème autographe (fragment), [Mésaventures d'un rosier ou Les Cachotteries de Watteau, 1921]; 1 page in-4 with erasures and corrections on strong pink paper. Draft for the end of this poem collected in Vocabulaire (Éditions de la Sirène, 1922). It consists of 8 tercets (the piece published in a 64), and alludes to Cocteau's affair with Radiguet, Narcissus, who is reproached for his feminine adventures. The manuscript, in black ink, presents some corrections in pencil, and interesting variants with the final version. "The beauty of her hand flatters him, irritates him, and irritates the neck of the girl of the wave, the song with the foliage where the vine hangs and looks through the glass of the ceiling, the extinguished rose [... ] Rose, go inside yourself and cry like Achille on Patrocle ..."...