One of the most illustrious is that of Jean Cocteau, made by Cartier in 1955. For the past few weeks, this sword with its famous profile has been on display in a salon of the jeweler's renovated boutique at 13, rue de la Paix, in Paris. .
The small lyre of Orpheus at its top, symbol of the poet, previously in ivory, damaged, has just been redone in white opal.
She is on the cover of Marie-Christine Lafon-De Monaghan's book
Au fil des épées.
Life of the Immortals
, by Michel Lafon, very documented and released last month.
We learn among other things that the emerald of almost 3 carats set in the strings of the lyre was offered to Cocteau by Gabrielle Chanel.
If this sword has often been seen in photos, many others are much more confidential.
The author therefore had to carry out a meticulous survey of living members, families and jewelers, listing all the academicians since 1903,
“the date on which the historian Frédéric Masson established, by entering under the Dome…
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