Personal Life
Though he was married during World War II to the actress Mila Parély, the couple were divorced after around two years. Marais, who was homosexual, was the muse and lover of Jean Cocteau until Cocteau's death. After Cocteau's death, Marais wrote a memoir of Cocteau, L'Inconcevable Jean Cocteau, attributing authorship to "Cocteau-Marais." He also wrote his own autobiography, L'Histoires de ma vie, published in 1975.
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