His activities as a composer and arranger were mainly from the early part of his career and included film scores composed for Équivoque 1900 (1966), and two Louis Malle projects, the "William Wilson" segment of the Edgar Allan Poe triptych Histoires extraordinaires (1968), and Black Moon (1975), for which he adapted music by Wagner.
"Metzengerstein" was adapted into one component of Roger Vadim's Histoires extraordinaires in 1968.
The most famous French translation of the story is by Charles Baudelaire (first published in the magazine Le pays in February 1855 and included in the collection Nouvelles histoires extraordinaires in 1857).
"Never Bet the Devil Your Head" is the final segment (retitled "Toby Dammit") of the three-part Histoires extraordinaires (English title: Spirits of the Dead) (1968), directed by Federico Fellini.