Jean COCTEAU (1889-1963). Autograph poem (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 is composed of 8 tercets (the published piece has 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 beautiful one of her hand Flatters him, irritates him The neck Or the girl of the wave Thinks of the foliage where hangs The vine And looks through The glass of the ceiling The extinguished rose [...] Rose, come back in yourself And weep like Achilles On Patroclus "...