Moviefone: The Devil in the Flesh, by Raymond Radiguet: The Romance that Scandalised a Nation - Where to Watch
- #news
- #headline

Figure timeline
Raymond Radiguet was a French novelist and poet. His two novels are notable for their psychological complexity and classical aesthetics, as well as for their controversial subject matter. Radiguet died unexpectedly at the age of twenty after contracting typhoid fever.
Text from Wikipedia, available under CC BY-SA 4.0.
culture · French novelist and poet (1903–1923) · writer · journalist · poet · novelist · playwright · librettist · also Raymond Radiguet, Radiguet
Born 18 June 1903 · Died 12 December 1923 · Q333615
13 published statements · 0 followers
See & hear
5 photos
Media from Wikimedia Commons, hotlinked at the source under its own licence — see each file for author and terms.
Live now
Pulling headlines from trusted outlets — this usually takes a few seconds
Checking the wires…
Feed scan
These are live links, not archived citations — they only join the timeline once a collect run verifies and archives them.
Live pulse
Most recent outstanding titles, awards, and quotes
Moviefone: The Devil in the Flesh, by Raymond Radiguet: The Romance that Scandalised a Nation - Where to Watch
MutualArt.com: Raymond Radiguet
Radiguet's life and work were examined by Jean-Christophe Averty in Les deux vies du chat Radiguet, for the TV series Un siècle d'écrivains
Text from Wikipedia, available under CC BY-SA 4.0.
Le Bal du comte d'Orgel was adapted into a film, starring Jean-Claude Brialy as Comte Anne d'Orgel
Text from Wikipedia, available under CC BY-SA 4.0.
Claude Autant-Lara released his film Le diable au corps, based on Radiguet's novel and starring Gérard Philipe
Text from Wikipedia, available under CC BY-SA 4.0.
Stead and Blake wrote that admirers of Le Diable au corps "include the most discriminating of critics
Text from Wikipedia, available under CC BY-SA 4.0.
In response to Le Figaro's review of Radiguet's poetry collection Les Joues en feu (Cheeks on Fire), referred to the poems as les prétentieuses absurdités qu'on veut nous faire admirer à tout prix [transl
Text from Wikipedia, available under CC BY-SA 4.0.
Died 1923-12-12.
Text from Wikipedia, available under CC BY-SA 4.0.
“Translation: Originality consists in trying to be like everybody else — and failing.”
Radiguet and Cocteau collaborated several times, notably on the one-act play Le Gendarme incompris and on the libretto for Paul et Virginie, a comic opera adaptation of Bernardin de Saint-Pierre's novel; Erik Satie compo
Text from Wikipedia, available under CC BY-SA 4.0.
Entered the Lycée Charlemagne on a scholarship
Text from Wikipedia, available under CC BY-SA 4.0.
Born 1903-06-18.
Text from Wikipedia, available under CC BY-SA 4.0.
“Je ne sais pas. Je ne vois jamais son visage. Elle est toujours baissée, en train de relacer les souliers d”
Text from Wikipedia, available under CC BY-SA 4.0.
Connections