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Charles Pierre Péguy ( French: [ʃaʁl peɡi]; 7 January 1873 – 5 September 1914) was a French poet, essayist, and editor. His two main philosophies were socialism and nationalism; by 1908 at the latest, after years of uneasy agnosticism, he had become a believing (but generally non-practicing) Roman Catholic.
Charles Pierre Péguy, né le 7 janvier 1873 à Orléans ( Loiret) et tué au début de la Première Guerre mondiale, le 5 septembre 1914, premier jour de la première bataille de l'Ourcq, à Villeroy ( Seine-et-Marne ), est un écrivain, poète, essayiste et officier de réserve français.
Charles Péguy (born Jan. 7, 1873, Orléans, Fr.—died Sept. 5, 1914, near Villeroy) was a French poet and philosopher who combined Christianity, socialism, and patriotism into a deeply personal faith that he carried into action.
French poet, philosopher, and journalist Charles Péguy grew up poor in Orléans, France. He combined fervent Catholicism with socialist politics to create a body of work unlike any other.
Nov 27, 2018 · Charles Péguy's Difficult Hope. by Anne M. Carpenter November 27, 2018. Charles Péguy died with a bullet through the head on September 5, 1914. The First World War was but a few months old. Péguy is impossible to really characterize. He has a way of defying summarization, and so too do his poems.
A new online home for the Dreyfusard, playwrite, publisher, writer, editor, provacateur, poet, and mystic. Find Out More. Sneak Preview of What's to Come. You can find a few of Charles Péguy's work that has already been edited and translated. Lettre Du Provincial.
The French poet and author Charles Pierre Péguy (1873-1914) was a fervent Roman Catholic, patriot, and social reformer. Through his writings and actions he influenced many Frenchmen who went to war in 1914.
PÉGUY, CHARLES (1873–1914), French writer and poet. Charles-Pierre Péguy was born in Orléans on 7 January 1873. After losing his father at a very young age, he was raised in poverty by his mother, who instilled in him what he considered to be the true pride of the people—the love of a job well done, which he opposed to the "bourgeois ...
Charles Pierre Péguy was a French poet, essayist, and editor. His two main philosophies were socialism and nationalism; by 1908 at the latest, after years of uneasy agnosticism, he had become a believing Roman Catholic.
In the English-speaking world, the French poet and intermittently Catholic polemicist Charles Péguy is barely even a name today. From about 1910 until around the time Curtius composed his tabulary homage, Péguy was regularly invoked as a modern master—a peculiar master, to be sure, but a master nonetheless.
