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Love is rarer than genius itself. And friendship is rarer than love.
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Birth: | 7th January, 1873 |
Death: | 4th September, 1914 |
Nationality: | French |
Profession: | Editor, Essayist, Philosopher, Poet |
Charles Pierre Peguy was a noted French poet, essayist, and editor born in Orléans. His two main philosophies were socialism and nationalism, but by 1908 at the latest, after years of uneasy agnosticism, he had become a devout but non-practicing Roman Catholic. From that time, Catholicism strongly influenced his works.
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