Maurice de Guérin

Maurice de Guérin (* August 4, 1810 in Cayla Castle at Andillac; † July 19, 1839 ) was a French writer.

Maurice de Guérin grew up in a Catholic family on his father's estate. He aspired to an ecclesiastical career when he visited in 1824, the College Stanislas in Paris, where he met Jules Barbey d' Aurevilly. He quit his studies at the Collège Stanislas in, first studied law, then turned to journalism and published in the Revue Européenne and Avenir.

In July 1830, during the July revolution, de Guérin was back in Cayla, where he met Louise de Bayne, to whom he dedicated some poems. Félicité de Lamennais He joined in Brittany. There he met Hippolyte de la Morvonnais know and noted in his journal Le Cahier Vert some of the discussions, which he pursued at Lemennais. In 1835 he returned to Paris, where he ' learned of the death of the woman and her Morvonnais Page sans titre devoted. In his time in Paris, where he actively participated in the Paris Salon of life, he wrote Centaure, Bacchante, Glaucus and La Délivrande.

In November 1838 married Caroline de Guérin de Gervain, but contracted tuberculosis shortly after. He returned to Cayla, where he died on 19 July 1839.