From the Archive: Jean Cocteau

La Villa Santo Sospir

Socialite and arts patron Francine Weisweiller at her home, Villa Santo Sospir, featuring frescoes by Jean Cocteau, 1951, Getty Images/Michel Mako

American millionaire Alec Weisweiller had promised his wife, Francine, a dream house in the South of France if they survived the Second World War. In 1948, they purchased Villa Santo Sospir in St-Jean-Cap-Ferr…