Henri-Pierre Roché

Henri-Pierre Roché (28 May 1879 – 9 April 1959) was a French author who was involved with the artistic avant-garde in Paris and the Dada movement.

At the turn of the 20th century, he became close friends with young European artists in the Montparnasse Quarter of Paris, including Manuel Ortiz de Zárate and Marie Vassilieff; and from Montmartre, Max Jacob and Pablo Picasso.

Leo Stein described Roché as "a tall man with an inquiring eye under an inquisitive forehead, wanted to know something more about everything.

There, they worked with Beatrice Wood to create The Blind Man and Rongwrong, two magazines that were among the early manifestations in the United States of the Dada art movement.

Roché became the chief advisor to the American art collector John Quinn in 1917 and made many acquisitions for him from 1917 to 1924.

Both novels, although written by a man who was quite advanced in age, express a vitality and freshness not often seen in French romantic stories of the time.

[citation needed] The French film director François Truffaut came across a copy of Jules et Jim secondhand.

Truffaut's first adaptation, Jules and Jim (1962), was followed by the earliest English translation of the novel as a Panther paperback published in Great Britain in 1963.