biography
pronunciation:
[radeegay]
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| male
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| lived:
| (1903–23)
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| biography:
| Novelist and poet, born in Saint-Maur, NC France. A precocious protégé of Jean Cocteau, he took Paris by storm with his poetry and drama as a teenager, but is best known for his masterpieces Le Diable au Corps (1923, The Devil in the Flesh) and Le Bal du Comte d'Orgel (1924, trans Count Orgel Opens the Ball). He led a dissipated life and died of typhoid. |
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