Charles Peguy Quotes
Freedom is a system based on courage.
Citations
Péguy, Charles. Lettre du provincial. Cahiers de la Quinzaine, 1899, p. 45.
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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.