Henri-Pierre Roché

Henri-Pierre Roché was a French writer, journalist, art collector and dealer. He was the author of the novels Jules et Jim and Deux anglaises et le continent, later turned into films by François Truffaut. He corresponded or was acquainted with many avant-garde artists and writers of his time, such as Georges Braque, Blaise Cendrars, Jean Cocteau, Le Corbusier, Isadora Duncan, Ford Madox Ford, James Joyce, Paul Klee, Pablo Picasso, Diego Rivera, Ezra Pound, Erik Satie, Gertrude Stein, and John Quinn.