Jean Desbordes (1906-1944) was a French bisexual author, actor and war hero. As a teenager he became a protege of artist and poet Jean Cocteau. Cocteau helped Desbordes publish his first book, J’Adore (1928). The two men remained lovers and collaborators in Paris into the 1930s. Cocteau cast Desbordes in his first film, La Sang du Poet (1932). In 1938 he married Madeleine Peltier. At the outbreak of WWII, Desbordes joined the French resistance network F2. In 1945 he was arrested and tortured to death by the Nazis. He posthumously received multiple honors and his name in the Pantheon among other French writers killed between 1939-1945.