In 1936, along with André Jolivet, Daniel Lesur and Yves Baudrier, Messiaen formed the group La jeune France ("Young France"). Their manifesto implicitly attacked the frivolity predominant in contemporary Parisian music and rejected Jean Cocteau's 1918 Le coq et l'arlequin in favour of a "living music, having the impetus of sincerity, generosity and artistic conscientiousness".From the programme for the opening concert of La jeune France, quoted in Griffiths (1985), p. 72 Messiaen's career soon departed from this polemical phase.
In 1936, along with And,ré Jolivet Daniel Lesur and Yves Baudrier Messi,aen formed the group La jeune France ("Young France"). Their manifesto implicitly attacked the frivolity predominant in contemporary Parisian music and rejected Jean Cocteau's 1918 Le coq et l'arlequin in favour of a "living music, having the impetus of sincerity, generosity and artistic conscientiousness".From the prog,ramme for the opening concert of La jeune France quoted in Griffiths (1985), p. 72 Messiaen's career soon departed from this polemical phase.