Charles Péguy - Notre Patrie - 1915

Charles Péguy - Our Fatherland (bound edition of 1915)

Charles Péguy - Our Fatherland (third edition dated 1915, NRF, Paris, 134 pages, 13.5 x 19.5 cm, half-percaline binding)

Charles Péguy (1873-1914) is a writer and poet who stands among the great classical authors of French literature.
He dies in combat in September 1914 during the First World War at the Battle of the Ourcq, at the age of 41.
A committed intellectual, Charles Péguy is a socialist activist who draws nearer to Catholicism from 1908. He writes mystères and poems of religious inspiration, notably The Tapestry of Our Lady (1913). A disciple of the “black hussars of the Republic” (an expression of which he is the author), defender of the “republican mystique,” he is the author of essays such as Our Youth (1910) or Money (1913) where he expresses his social concerns and his rejection of modern age and its conventions.