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Charles Peguy
Charles Peguy
  • Born: January 7, 1873
  • Died: September 5, 1914
  • Nationality: French
  • Profession: Writer

Charles Pierre Péguy was a noted French poet, essayist, and editor. His two main philosophies were socialism and nationalism, but by 1908 at the latest, after years of uneasy agnosticism, he had become a believing but non-practicing Roman Catholic. From that time, Catholicism strongly influenced his works.