Charles Péguy
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Charles Péguy was a French poet, essayist, and editor who lived from 1873 to 1914 and became an influential voice in early 20th-century French intellectual life. He matters because his writings on literature, politics, and spirituality shaped French culture during a pivotal period, and his life came to an abrupt end during World War I.
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- Born
- 7 January 1873
- Died
- 5 September 1914
- Works
- 288
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- Eve
- Lettre à Franklin-Bouillon
- La chanson du roi Dagobert
- Notre patrie ...
- Œuvres choisies, 1900-1910
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- Total plays
- 16
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Charles Pierre Péguy ( French: [ʃaʁl(ə) 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) Catholic. From that time, Catholicism strongly influenced his works. Péguy was killed in World War I at age 41 by German invading forces near Villeroy, Seine-et-Marne.
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