Jean COCTEAU. Autograph manuscript signed, Le danger des machines, [1941]; 2 pages in-4. Before the premiere of his play La Machine à écrire (Théâtre Hébertot, April 29, 1941): "I have never used a typewriter in my life. I don't like machines"... He evokes the use of a typewriter in the orchestra of Parade, Berthe Bovy in La Voix humaine, and La Machine infernale: "The cinema, the typewriter, the telephone, the radio, so many devices that make ghosts and release them in disorder in the cities"...