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Raymond Radiguet
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Precocious French writer and poet, whose best-known work is The Devil in the Flesh, a love story between a schoolboy and a young married woman. As Rimbaud had done years before, Raymond Radiguet made his breakthrough as a writer in his adolescence. Radiguet wrote the book before he was nineteen and by twenty he was dead.
"Listen, I have something terrible to tell you. In three days I am going to be shot by the soldiers of God." (Radiguet to Cocteau in December 1923)
Raymond Radiguet was born in Saint-Maur-des-Fossés (Seine), a meteorological station some eight miles from Paris. His father was a cartoonist. Almost nothing is known of Radiguet's childhood and education; he grew up during World War I and the home front climate also left tra
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