COCTEAU Jean Autograph MANUSCRIT signed "Jean Cocteau",[Sur L'Aigle à deux têtes, 1946]; 3 pages in-4. Presentation of his play L'Aigle à deux têtes. This article was given to the weekly magazine Juin (21 September 1946), to present L'Aigle à deux têtes before its Parisian premiere at the Théâtre Hébertot on 20 December 1946, after having been performed in Brussels and Lyon in October. "It is very difficult to talk about a work of oneself[...] L'Aigle à deux têtes is a piece that seeks to expose nothing other than the prestige of the theatre and the talent of the artists who perform it. I didn't think that there would be much talk about the game, that there would be action or no action. My characters speak and act according to the inner rhythm that animates them and if they speak endlessly, like my queen in the first act, it is because the intensity of the silence of her partner forms a dialogue with her that the attentive spectators do not make mistakes. Certainly, the modern danger is that the public, considered as an elite public, no longer gives works the admirable attention by which the popular public depersonalizes itself. As a result, he takes for obscurities or lengths nuances that require a break with himself of which he is incapable and that violent surprises disturb him from his own contemplation. ...] My only method [...] was to follow my characters from one end to the other without ever letting go of the common thread that runs through them and composes their destiny"... And he finally talks about his actors, including Edwige Feuillère and Jean Marais, and his collaborators...