In the first days of July, Jean Cocteau and Raymond Radiguet leave for Besse-en-Chandesse, a small village in Auvergne where the join Pierre Bertin, Marcelle Meyer and Georges Auric. The little band is found at the Hotel de Paris and likes to call around the life of Alfred de Musset. While Radiguet takes the role of a lackey, Cocteau takes to de Musset, Pierre Bertin for the latter's brother, Marcelle Meyer for his mistress and Georges Auric for ... George Sand. They are experimenting with speaking Alexandrian tirades by remembering the author of Lorenzaccio .
Raymond Radiguet and Georges Auric Besse-en-Chandesse, July 1921. Copyright Museum Jean Cocteau.
Following a dispute with a vendor pie (overpriced and inedible - the case will go to the local police!), The team decided to leave the village, preferring the warm summer Basin Arcachon to Auvergne they do not like too much. Top August 1921, at about the same time the previous year, Cocteau and thus returns to Piquey Radiguet.
Grand Hotel Chantecler from Piquey
They stay there until September and receive further visits of friends, including those of Jean and Valentine Hugo and Georges Auric well. The stay of the latter probably did not drag on as the 21, Cocteau sent him a postcard and caption: "the coast making Chantecler Hotel, an incoming mail. Silver Coast. Piquey "Sources
post: Radiguet Chloe and Julian Ash: Raymond Radiguet. A serious young man in the Roaring Twenties , Thousand and One Nights, 2003; Correspondence Georges Auric / Jean Cocteau Jean Caizergues published by Centre for the Study of the twentieth century, Paul Valéry University, Montpellier, 1999.
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