 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.Bazaine illustrated Raymond Queneau's monograph "André Frénaud" for Le Divan Editeur, 1960 (150 ex.