Raymond RADIGUET has just died. Jean COCTEAU is desperate. 1923.

“The thing that couldn’t happen has happened. Now it's a perfect thing. Radiguet gives me another lesson in knowing how to live. »

1.800€

Jean Cocteau (1889.1963)

Autograph letter signed to the French director, Jacques Catelain

A page in-4°. Stamped and canceled autograph envelope.

[Paris], rue d'Anjou. December 19, 1923

“Radiguet gives me yet another lesson in knowing how to live.”

Very moving letter from Cocteau overwhelmed by the death of Raymond Radiguet which occurred a few days earlier.

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“My dear Catelain, The thing that could not happen has happened. Now it's a perfect thing. Radiguet gives me yet another lesson in good living. I'm in bed, I'm just sick, I imitate him badly . I will never forget your good letter under any circumstances. Jean Cocteau"

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Raymond Radiguet, carried away by typhoid fever, died on December 12, 1923. In his delirium, he declared: “ I am afraid, in three days I will be shot by the soldiers of God. »