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'Les Six'; composed of Darius Milhaud (1892-1974), Arthur Honegger (1892-1955), Germaine Tailleferre (1892-1983), Georges Auric (1899-1983), Louis Durey (1888-1979) and Francis Poulenc (1899-1963), and was active in Paris during the 1920s. Jean Cocteau (1889-1963) was their poet and spokesperson, and the group considered Erik Satie (1866-1925) to be its spiritual master. Meetings assembling various artistic circles in the salons of Paris at the time permitted the birth of collaborations between creators, reading poems, presenting the latest musical compositions or exhibiting paintings. It was in this context and through frequenting the salons that the six musicians, then about twenty years old, became gradually acquainted with each other.