 In 1997, when "Jean Bazaine, couleurs et mots - entretiens avec Paul Ricœur et Henri Maldiney" appeared, summarizing his career, his monumental mosaic "L'Envol de la Liberté" on the Mur de la Liberté (Liberty Wall) at Saint-Dié-des-Vosges was being completed.Throughout his career Bazaine kept contact with many poets, some twenty of whom he saluted in "Jean Bazaine, couleurs et mots" (1997) including Paul Éluard, Abdellatif Laabi, Pierre Lecomte du Noüy, Eugène Guillevic.Three of them stand out as lifelong friends and soulmates, André Frénaud (whose work has been translated by Keith Bosley), Jean Tardieu, and his own son Jean-Baptiste de Seynes who took his name from his mother Catherine de Seynes-Bazaine.