Jean Genet

Jean Genet was born in Paris on 19 December 1910. Abandoned by his mother to the Assistance publique, he was placed as a child with a foster family. He then led a wandering life, made up of thefts and spells in prison. Supported by Jean Cocteau and Jean-Paul Sartre, whom he met in 1944, he was sentenced to life imprisonment in 1948, then pardoned in 1949 following a petition. He later committed himself to the Black Panthers and to the Palestinian cause. He died in Paris in 1986.

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