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Péguy, Charles (Pierre)
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pronunciation:
[paygee]
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| (1873–1914)
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| Writer and publisher, born in Orléans, C France. A scholarship student at the École Normale, he intended to teach philosophy but became a fervent Socialist, reflected in his first verison of Jeanne d'Arc (1897). Caught up in the Dreyfus affair, his bookshop became a centre for political agitation. He founded the influential literary journal Cahiers de la quinzaine (1900, Fortnightly Notebooks) and published his own works, such as Notre patrie (1905), L'Argent (1913), and Notre Jeunesse (1910). Having found faith in 1908 (his correspondence at that time with Jacques Maritain was published in 1997) he composed in poetry Le Mystère de la Charité de Jeanne d'Arc (1910), Le Mystère des Saints Innocents (1912), Eve, and La Tapisserie de Notre-Dame (both 1913). He was killed in action in World War 1. |
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