Jeanne d' Arc (1897) was one of Peguy's early publications, a play, and Le Mystère de la charité de Jeanne d'Arc (1910) shows his continuous interest in faith and French history.
The following biographical notes mainly come from Charles Péguy: the pursuit of salvation,Yvonne Servais (1953), or Charles Péguy: a study in integrity, Marjorie Villiers (1975).
Peguy moved his household in 1899 from Paris to a suburban semi- rural retreat, from which he commuted via the new Sceaux rail line. On the surface, the family seemed to enjoy an idyllic existence there, with a dog, three cats, and two goats...
[Peguy, continuing the ideal life, started a bookstore;]
the bookshop,... was situated in the heart of the Latin Quarter, only a few steps from the Panthéon, ... Peguy decided that he was going to be not only a bookseller, but a typographer, a printer, a publisher and an author as well, thus combining manual and intellectual work
His heritage from previous tenants, a large black cat, he allowed to remain...
[The]black cat, which had adopted the 'cite harmonieuse' [as the tiny bookstore was casually called] as its abiding home, slept on the stacks of unsold copies of Joan of Arc. Once in a while, there was a little excitement: a band of royalists would smash a window in Peguy's shop, {Peguy was a socialist]
We can see enough in the above description to realize that certain dreams of the young do not change. Some of Pequy's better known thoughts and titles:
"Kantianism has clean hands, but it has no hands."
"Homer is new and fresh this morning, and nothing, perhaps, is so old and tired as today's newspaper."
"It is impossible to write ancient history because we do not have enough sources, and impossible to write modern history because we have too many". Clio, dialogue de l'histoire et de l'âme païenne (1909–1912).
"There will be things that I do that no one will be left to understand." Le Mystère des saints Innocents (1912).
Jacques Mauritain later described Peguy's office as having an atmosphere of "so much good will, such courage, such generosity." Or as Peguy titled one book: Le Porche du mystère de la deuxième vertu (1912).
the bookshop,... was situated in the heart of the Latin Quarter, only a few steps from the Panthéon, ... Peguy decided that he was going to be not only a bookseller, but a typographer, a printer, a publisher and an author as well, thus combining manual and intellectual work
His heritage from previous tenants, a large black cat, he allowed to remain...
[The]black cat, which had adopted the 'cite harmonieuse' [as the tiny bookstore was casually called] as its abiding home, slept on the stacks of unsold copies of Joan of Arc. Once in a while, there was a little excitement: a band of royalists would smash a window in Peguy's shop, {Peguy was a socialist]
We can see enough in the above description to realize that certain dreams of the young do not change. Some of Pequy's better known thoughts and titles:
"Kantianism has clean hands, but it has no hands."
"Homer is new and fresh this morning, and nothing, perhaps, is so old and tired as today's newspaper."
"It is impossible to write ancient history because we do not have enough sources, and impossible to write modern history because we have too many". Clio, dialogue de l'histoire et de l'âme païenne (1909–1912).
"There will be things that I do that no one will be left to understand." Le Mystère des saints Innocents (1912).
Jacques Mauritain later described Peguy's office as having an atmosphere of "so much good will, such courage, such generosity." Or as Peguy titled one book: Le Porche du mystère de la deuxième vertu (1912).
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