Jacques Chazot

Jacques Chazot

Jacques Chazot, (b. 25 September 1928 in Locmiquélic (Morbihan), d. 12 July 1993 in Monthyon (Seine-et-Marne) was a French dancer and socialite.

Biography

He joined Opéra de Paris in 1947 as a dancer. In 1956, he joined Opéra-Comique. The same year, he wroteLes Carnets de Marie-Chantal, creating a character who is the archetype of the snobbish socialite.[1]

He was a very close friend of Françoise Sagan and a companion of Coco Chanel.

He became famous through television, dancing in many television shows of the 1970s. He was at the time one of the few people to appear on television as openly gay.

He had throat cancer. In his last years he lived in a castle of Monthyon, a property in the vicinity of Paris owned by Jean-Claude Brialy.

Bibliography

References

  1. L'Humanité, 13 juillet 1993
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