Jacques Chazot

Jacques Chazot b 25 September 1928 in Locmiquélic Morbihan d 12 July 1993 in Monthyon SeineetMarne was a French dancer and socialite He joined Opéra de Paris in 1947 as a dancer In 1956 he joined OpéraComique The same year he wrote Les Carnets de MarieChantal creating a character who is the archetype of the snobbish socialite He was a very close friend of Françoise Sagan Juliette Gréco Régine Claude Bessy Hassan II among others 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 oral cancer In his last years he lived in a castle of Monthyon a property in the vicinity of Paris owned by JeanClaude Brialy Source Article Jacques Chazot from Wikipedia in English licensed under CCBYSA 30