Radiguet

/ radiɡɛ /

noun

1. RadiguetRaymond19031923MFrenchWRITING: novelist Raymond (rɛmɔ̃). 1903–23, French novelist; the author of The Devil in the Flesh (1923) and Count d'Orgel (1924)

Example Sentences

Both of those films were based on masterpieces of French literature: The first was adapted from a novel by the brilliant but short-lived author Raymond Radiguet; the second from two short stories by Guy de Maupassant.

From New York Times

He introduced a quickly besotted Cocteau to the teenage Raymond Radiguet, author of “The Devil in the Flesh,” which slightly fictionalized the boy’s scandalous love affair with a married woman.

From Washington Post

In 2014, off the coast of Guerrero, Mexico, a magnitude-7.2 earthquake occurred about two months after slow slip began, says Mathilde Radiguet, a seismologist at ISTerre Institute of Earth Sciences in Grenoble, France.

From Nature

When the Dadaists were blithering their way into oblivion after World War I, he and his adored friend Raymond Radiguet were shrewd enough to realize that "we must write poems and novels like everybody else"�though at the time, traditional forms were what practically nobody else was bothering to use.

From Time Magazine Archive

Raymond Radiguet was 14 when he began his conquest of literary Paris.

From Time Magazine Archive