ABSTRACT
The magazine Le Coq was put together by the members of the group Les Six namely: Poulenc, Auric, Durey, Honegger, Milhaud and Tailleferre, and especially by Jean Cocteau, their theoretician and promoter. The idea behind it was launched on 6 March 1920 at a dinner paid for by François Bernouard, who went on to publish the periodical. Printed on poster paper folded into six and in a fantastical typography inspired by that of the Dadaist writings, the magazine looked like a tract. Le Coq lasted for only four numbers, the last two called Le Coq Parisien. It was an offshoot or a continuation of Cocteau's little pamphlet Le Coq et l'Arlequin, 'published in 1918, a brilliant collection of aphorisms intended to defend the ballet Parade and appealing for a musical aesthetic that was French, clear and economical, and that turned its back on Romanticism, to which Debussyism and Impressionism were indebted.
