The Devil in the Flesh, by Raymond Radiguet: The Romance that Scandalised a Nation

Yann Coquart
2022-11-16

7
52 min

In 1923, the young French writer Raymond Radiguet (1903-23) published The Devil in the Flesh, a novel that caused a great scandal by telling the story of the love affair between a married woman and a teenager in the middle of World War I.