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Radiguet

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Radiguet
Raymond . 1903--23, French novelist; the author of The Devil in the Flesh (1923) and Count d'Orgel (1924)


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Cocteau saw his talent and, though their romantic relationship failed, the older writer nonetheless mentored the younger one through the creation of his two important novels, The Devil in the Flesh and Count d'Orgel's Ball, before Radiguet died of typhoid fever in 1923.
He tells us how the daunting and alluring Jamila became a teenage fan of risqué French literature ("Baudelaire and Colette and Radiguet and all that rude lot") before deciding to model herself on Simone de Beauvoir, and meeting him fortnightly for sex, usually en plein air.
He had painted portraits of Jean Cocteau, Raymond Radiguet, Leon Bakst and Juan Gris, as well as others whose fame was more spurious, such as Guillaume Apollinaire, a naturalised Pole with the real name of Kostrowitski, who wrote copious bogus experimental French verse; not to speak of all 300 lb.
 
 
 
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