Quand le crayon relaie la plume… Dessins en marge du Passé défini

While drawing is “writing untied and rejoined in another way,” the two methods coexist. Jean Cocteau almost always used sketch pads for his diaries. Sometimes, he saved the back of the page for drawings. They are often connected to the text and some follow one after the other like a comic book. Others are ornamental, separating two paragraphs. Their number declined in his final years. The tools of expression vary: pencil, ballpoint pen, grease pencil, and colored pencils.