Charles Péguy

Charles Peguy Pierre ( born January 7, 1873 in Orléans, † September 5, 1914 at Villeroy ) was a French writer.

Life

Peguy was born the son of a carpenter and a Stuhlflickerin. Then the father Désiré died early, the boy grew up with his mother and grandmother, an illiterate peasant woman on. First he attended elementary school in Orléans, then a scholarship the local high school and finally the Lycée Lakanal in Sceaux. The high school he graduated with very good success, in November 1892, he joined his military service in Orléans. Since he is an orphan, this was limited to one year. After acquired in July 1894 "Licence " in philosophy Peguy managed in the third attempt the entrance examination for the École Normale Supérieure, which he, however, left after failing the Agrégation in August 1898. Peguy waived thereafter on a university career and became a bookseller and writer.

In 1895 he became a member of the Socialist Party. 1897 was published under a pseudonym, his first play Joan of Arc. He founded with friends in Paris bookshop Librairie Georges Bellais. In the Dreyfus affair, he joined the Émile Zola formulated in J'accuse criticism. In 1899 he resigned from the Socialist Party again.

1906 Peguy turned back to Catholicism. As a consequence, nationalistic tones were clearly in his work.

1914 was Peguy as a reserve lieutenant in the French infantry regiment No. 276 by ​​an enemy head shot shortly before the Battle of the Marne. He is buried in the military cemetery in Chauconin- Neufmontiers.

Works

  • Jeanne d' Arc. 1897.
  • Notre patrie. In 1905.
  • Clio. Dialogue de l' histoire et de l' âme païenne. , 1909.
  • The Mystery of the Charity of Joan of Arc., 1910.
  • Victor- Marie, Comte Hugo. Solvuntur Objecta. , 1910.
  • Notre jeunesse. , 1910.
  • Le porche you mystère de la deuxième vertu. , 1911.
  • The Mystery of the Holy Innocents. 1912. 1946 set to music as an oratory by the French composer Henry Barraud for orchestra, baritone, recitative and orchestra.
  • L' argent, L' argent suite. In 1913.
  • Ève. In 1913.
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