Edouard Dermit, known as Doudou, Jean Cocteau's legacy
A kid who became a miner in Lorraine
A boy born in Slovenia in 1925 who, like many with him, followed his family to Lorraine to work. A loader at the bottom of the mines of the Meuse, near Bouligny, it is a real work of art that the beauty of this boy who goes to Paris and becomes a gardener there. It was in a bookstore that he met Cocteau who fell in love with him.
First love of Coteau
Initially in love, but very quickly it is a beautiful relationship of tenderness that links the two men. Édouard, who became Antoine, became an actor. He played in Orphée, or les enfants terribles, and very quickly it was he who looked after Cocteau. To such an extent that he becomes his spiritual son and, as a result, his universal legatee, when the poet-filmmaker dies, on the same day as La Môme Piaf in 1963. Édouard is therefore doudou, as he is known for his kindness of character and his availability when he is needed. And doudou watches over Cocteau's legacy, especially his artistic legacy.
Then his heir
And he doesn't forget Lorraine which allowed him to start a new life in France when he was a child, even if it must be admitted that in the mine, it was a very rough new life. Doudou personally saw to it that the magnificent stained glass windows that Cocteau had imagined for Saint-Maximin in Metz were completed, and that can still be seen today. Married, he had two children. He continued his own work, he who was so gifted with his hands, especially for painting. A work that is always a pleasure to look at. Édouard Dermit will have shone for three beauty. His body, magnificent, his spirit, generous, and his art, amazing. And it is here in Lorraine that this triple beauty met France.
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