René Forgeot (9 December 1905 in Brest – 9 June 1995 in Saint-Romain-de-Lerps) known in literature under the pseudonym Noël Devaulx, was a French novelist and short-story writer.
After having had to give up his maritime career for health reasons, and supported by Boris de Schloezer, René Forgeot graduated from the École Supérieure d'Électricité.
The following are texts, haunted by the theme of blood, gas and deportations, which appear during the war, notably in the reviews of Pierre Seghers, Poésie, by Max-Pol Fouchet [fr], Fontaine and René Tavernier, Confluences.
In full German occupation of France, the author said that Le pressoir mystique could not be put into all hands: in fact, the collaborationist Pierre Drieu La Rochelle expressed some reservations.
"Theater d'ombres" According to the expression of H. Ronse (NRF, 2, 1967) but where the evident existence of these shadows is like hollow engraving of nostalgia for the spiritual and the sacred.