Jacques Rigaut in the 18th arrondissement

Jacques Rigaut (1898–29) was a Dadaist writer and was a friend of Drieu la Rochelle, who made him the protagonist of three of his books: La Valise vide, Le Feu follet, and L'Adieu à Gonzague. The painter Jacques-Émile Blanche employed him as his secretary. He consumed large amounts of opium, cocaine and heroin. He married the rich American Gladys Barber in New York in 1926, who swiftly left him because of his drug addition. Back in Paris he tried various cures for his addiction, but in Châtenay-Malabry he shot himself in the heart in 1939 at the age of thirty. Renaud mentions him in 'Mon bistrot préféré' as one of the people he'd like to join him in his ideal pub. Jacques Rigaut is buried in the Cimetière de Montmartre, division 32.