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Radiguet, Raymond
(rmôN´ rädg´) (KEY) , 190323, French writer. In his brief career he wrote two penetrating novelsThe Devil in the Flesh (1923, tr. 1932), a study of adolescence; and Le Bal du comte dOrgel (1924, tr., Counts Ball, 1929, Count dOrgel, 1953), a sophisticated novel of manners reflecting the disillusionment of the postWorld War I period.