Villa Santo Sospir
The Villa Santo Sospir is a villa on the Côte d'Azur in Saint-Jean-Cap-Ferrat in the Alpes-Maritimes department in Provence , France .
history
The villa was built between 1931 and 1935 by the French patron Francine Weisweiller in a regional, Mediterranean style. The house became known through the stays of the French poet Jean Cocteau in the villa in the 1950s and 1960s. Weisweiler and Cocteau met while filming the film Les Enfants terribles by French cineast Jean-Pierre Melville . In 1950 Weisweiler invited Cocteau to spend a few days in the villa with his adoptive son Édouard Dermit. The invitation was accepted and Cocteau asked the lady of the house if he could put a fresco on a wall over a fireplace in the villa's drawing room during these days . The result was an Apollo head , which can still be seen today and which marks the beginning of a series of wall paintings by Cocteau in other places.
Until his death in 1963, Cocteau spent very long periods of relaxation in the Villa Santo Sospir, which has been classified as a Historic Monument since 1995 . In 2001 the villa was declared a 20th century heritage and in 2007 the entire property including the villa became a historical monument . The monument can be visited today by appointment.
Movie
- In 1952 Cocteau's 35-minute amateur film La Villa Santo-Sospir was made .
literature
- Carole Weisweiller: Jean Cocteau. Les Années Francine 1950–1963. Éditions Seuil, Paris 2003, ISBN 2-02-061402-2 .
- New edition 2011, ISBN 978-2-02-104127-9 .
- Carole Weisweiller: Santo Sospir: Jean Cocteau 1950 . Michel de Maule éditions, Paris 2011.
- Carole Weisweiller (text), Suzanne Held (photos): Jean Cocteau: Les Murs tatoués . Michel de Maule éditions, Paris 2013.
Web links
- Website of the villa (fr.)
Individual evidence
Coordinates: 43 ° 40 ′ 36 ″ N , 7 ° 19 ′ 36 ″ E