On the docks of the harbor at Villefranche-sur-Mer Jean Cocteau receives in a fishnet a life-size gold sardine from fisherman Paul Dunan (left), known as 'The Pirate'. This present, created by a Nicois jeweller, is from the fishermen as a thank-you for the restoration and decoration works undertaken by the writer on the Chapelle Saint Pierre. Villefranche-Sur-Mer 1959.

On the docks of Villefranche-sur-Mer, fisherman Paul Dunan (left), known as ‘The Pirate’, presents a gift to Jean Cocteau. Held within a fishnet is a life-size gold sardine, a token of gratitude from local fishermen for the writer’s restoration and decoration of the Chapelle Saint Pierre. The sardine, created by a Nicois jeweller, is examined with interest by Cocteau, his distinctive curly hair catching the light of the sunny quayside in 1959.

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