Question: Are Jean Genet and Mark Sandrich both from France?

Context articles: Jean Cocteau
Saint Genet
Jean Genet
Mark Sandrich
Aicha Elbasri
Frieda Ekotto
Jay Sandrich
Christine and Léa Papin
The Miracle of the Rose
Plaça de Jean Genet, Barcelona

Jean Maurice Eugène Clément Cocteau (] ; 5 July 1889 – 11 October 1963) was a French writer, designer, playwright, artist and filmmaker.
 Cocteau is best known for his novel "Les Enfants Terribles" (1929), and the films "The Blood of a Poet" (1930), "Les Parents Terribles" (1948), "Beauty and the Beast" (1946) and "Orpheus" (1949).
 His circle of associates, friends and lovers included Kenneth Anger, Pablo Picasso, Gertrude Stein, Jean Hugo, Jean Marais, Henri Bernstein, Yul Brynner, Marlene Dietrich, Coco Chanel, Erik Satie, Albert Gleizes, Igor Stravinsky, Marie Laurencin, María Félix, Édith Piaf, Panama Al Brown, Colette, Jean Genet, and Raymond Radiguet.
Saint Genet, Actor and Martyr (French: "Saint Genet, comédien et martyr" ) is a book by the French philosopher Jean-Paul Sartre about the writer Jean Genet especially on his "The Thief's Journal".
 It was first published in 1952.
 Sartre described it as an attempt "to prove that genius is not a gift but the way out that one invents in desperate cases."
 Sartre also based his character Goetz in his play "The Devil and the Good Lord" (1951) on his analysis of Genet's psychology and morality.
 Sartre has been credited by David M. Halperin with providing, "a brilliant, subtle, and thoroughgoing study of the unique subjectivity and gender positioning of gay men".
Genet's mother was a prostitute who raised him for the first seven months of his life before putting him up for adoption.
 Thereafter Genet was raised in the provincial town of Alligny-en-Morvan, in the Nièvre department of central France.
 His foster family was headed by a carpenter and, according to Edmund White's biography, was loving and attentive.
 While he received excellent grades in school, his childhood involved a series of attempts at running away and incidents of petty theft.
Mark Sandrich (born Mark Rex Goldstein; October 26, 1900 – March 4, 1945) was an American film director, writer, and producer.
Aicha Elbasri is a writer and former United Nations official.
 She is the author of L’Imaginaire carcéral de Jean Genet, a book on Jean Genet, a prominent, controversial French writer and later political activist.
 She was previously the Spokesperson for the African Union – United Nations hybrid peacekeeping mission in Darfur, UNAMID.
Frieda Ekotto is a Francophone African woman novelist and literary critic.
 She is Professor of AfroAmerican and African Studies and Comparative Literature at the University of Michigan and is currently the Hunting Family Fellow at the Institute for the Humanities.
 She is best known for her novels, which focus on gender and sexuality in Sub-Saharan Africa, and her work on the writer Jean Genet, particular her political analysis of his prison writing, and his impact as a race theorist in the Francophone world.
 Her research and teaching focuses on literature, film, race and law in the Francophone world, spanning France, Africa, the Caribbean and the Maghreb.
Jay Henry Sandrich (born February 24, 1932) is an American television director; he is son of film director Mark Sandrich.
Christine Papin (8 March 1905 – 18 May 1937) and Léa Papin (15 September 1911 – 24 July 2001) were two French sisters, live-in maids, who were convicted of murdering their employer's wife and daughter in Le Mans, France, on 2 February 1933.
 This incident had a significant influence on French intellectuals Jean Genet, Jean-Paul Sartre and Jacques Lacan, who sought to analyze it, and it was thought of by some as symbolic of class struggle.
 The case has formed the basis of a number of publications, plays and films as well as essays, spoken word, songs, and artwork.
The Miracle of the Rose (French: "Miracle de la rose" ) is a 1946 book by Jean Genet about experiences as a detainee in Mettray Penal Colony and Fontevrault prison - although there is no direct evidence of Genet ever having been imprisoned in the latter establishment.
 This autobiographical work has a non-linear structure: stories from Genet's adolescence are mixed in with his experiences as a thirty-year-old man at Fontevrault prison.
 At Mettray, Genet describes homosexual erotic desires for his fellow adolescent detainees.
 There is also a fantastical dimension to the narrative, particularly in Fontevrault passages concerning a prisoner called Harcamone who is condemned to death for murder.
 Genet idolises Harcamone and writes poetically about the rare occasions on which he catches a glimpse of this character.
 Genet was detained in Mettray Penal Colony between 2 September 1926 and 1 March 1929, after which, at the age of 18, he joined the Foreign Legion.
Plaça de Jean Genet is a small, triangle-shaped square in Barcelona (the capital of Catalonia in Spain).
 It's located in the southern side of El Raval, by the port and Avinguda de les Drassanes and the Catalan Gothic buildings of the Royal Shipyard, in the district of Ciutat Vella.
 Its main feature is the functionalist high-rise which hosts the local Official School of Languages.
 It's named after French author Jean Genet who resided in the city for a time and whose novel "The Thief's Journal" takes place in the poverty-stricken alleys of Raval.
 Essayist Lluís Permanyer proposed the name in 1997.