Charles Péguy
1873 – 1914 · aged 41
French poet, essayist, and editor (1873–1914)
- Born
- 7 Jan 1873 · Orléans
- Died
- 5 Sept 1914 · Le Plessis-l'Évêque
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- 7 Jan 1873BornBorn in Orléans
- 1911AwardEstrade-Delcros award
- 1914 – 1918WarWorld War I
- 5 Sept 1914DiedDied in Le Plessis-l'Évêque
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- 18961896 Summer Olympics
- 1898Spanish–American War
- 1904 – 1905Russo-Japanese War
Biography
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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