The Count of Orgel is a handsome, charming and carefree aristocrat. The beautiful Countess of Orgel loves her husband more than anything. One day, backstage at a circus, the Orgels meet and befriend the brilliant young François Séryeuse. A complex relationship full of lies begins between these civilized and witty people. At the Count of Orgel's masquerade ball, the masks actually hide people's hearts, but none of them know it. In The Count of Orgel's Ball, published just before Raymond Radiguet's untimely death, we encounter a subtle analysis of the depths of the human soul.

"The Count of Orgel's mind was the most marvelous mind in the world, but it was also extremely authoritarian, secretive and intransigent. It 'acquired' people rather than relating to them. And it demanded a lot in return. It wanted some direction. It kept them under its control."

"More beautiful than Proust, more real than Balzac..."
-Jean Cocteau-