Cocteau, though similar in age to "Les Six", was something of a father-figure to the group. His literary style, "paradoxical and lapidary" in Hell's phrase, was anti-romantic, concise and irreverent. It greatly appealed to Poulenc, who made his first setting of Cocteau's words in 1919 and his last in 1961. When members of "Les Six" collaborated with each other, they contributed their own individual sections to the joint work. Their 1920 piano suite "L'Album des Six" consists of six separate and unrelated pieces. Their 1921 ballet "Les mariés de la tour Eiffel" contains three sections by Milhaud, two apiece by Auric, Poulenc and Tailleferre, one by Honegger and none by Durey, who was already distancing himself from the group.