Jean Benoît Jean Benoît is an artist known as "The Enchanter of Serpents", most famous for his surrealist sculptures. He was born in Quebec, Canada, and studied art at the Ecole des Beaux Arts de Montréal, where he met Mimi Parent, whom he married in 1948. He met André Breton in 1959, and joined the Surrealist group that same year. Jean_Benoît