June 18, 1903


1903 – French author Raymond Radiguet (18 June 1903 – 12 December 1923) is born. 

French poet Jean Cocteau (5 July 1889 – 11 October 1963) was his lover and mentor. 

Hemingway wrote that Radiguet employed his sexuality to advance his career. 

He wrote his first French masterpiece The Devil in the Flesh at the age of fifteen, his second novel Count d’Orgel’s Ball at nineteen, and died from typhoid at twenty.

Source

https://ronnisanlo.com/today-in-lgbt-history-june-18-3/

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Raymond_Radiguet

https://www.theparisreview.org/blog/2018/04/10/monsieur-bebe-the-brief-strange-life-of-raymond-radiguet/