Péguy

/ peɡi /

noun

PéguyCharles18731914MFrenchWRITING: poetWRITING: essayist Charles (ʃarl). 1873–1914, French poet and essayist, whose works include Le Mystère de la charité de Jeanne d'Arc (1910); founder of the journal Cahiers de la quinzaine (1900–14): killed in World War I

Claudel, even more remote as a thinker from Nietzsche than Péguy, exhibits a kindred temper in the ingrained violence of his art.

I have just seen that Charles Péguy died at the beginning of the war.

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