Jean COCTEAU (1889-1963). Autograph manuscript signed, À propos de Jean Marais. Les jeunes premiers et la guerre, [1940]; 5 pages in-4 with erasures and corrections. He evokes the death of Réjane, Yvonne de Bray who upset Jean Marais, the youth of 1940, Jean Marais who had to abandon the theater at the height of his glory to go to war... And he salutes the heroism of the young actors "who ask us to forget them, to sacrifice them, not to let the boards cool down, to light up the theaters, to employ their comrades who remain, so that they come back to us one day, knowing their roles, as if no stop had been made".