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Léon Bloy (French pronunciation: [leɔ̃ blwa]; 11 July 1846 – 3 November 1917) was a French Catholic novelist, essayist, pamphleteer (or lampoonist), and satirist, known additionally for his eventual (and passionate) defense of Catholicism and for his influence within French Catholic circles.
Jul 7, 2024 · Léon Bloy (born July 11, 1846, Périgueux, France—died November 2, 1917, Bourg-la-Reine) was a French novelist, critic, and polemicist, a fervent Roman Catholic convert who preached spiritual revival through suffering and poverty.
Jul 14, 2015 · Born in 1846, only two years before the Spring Revolutions engulfed Western Europe’s monarchs and dethroned the Orleanist regime in France, Léon Bloy was raised by an antimonarchial, anti-Catholic father who imparted such beliefs on his adolescent son.
Léon Bloy, né le 11 juillet 1846 à Périgueux et mort le 3 novembre 1917 à Bourg-la-Reine, est un romancier, essayiste et polémiste français. Il est connu pour son roman Le Désespéré , largement inspiré de sa relation avec Anne-Marie Roulé.
Bloy was born in Notre-Dame-de-Sanilhac, in the arondissement of Périgueux, Dordogne. He was the second of six sons of Voltairean freethinker and stern disciplinarian Jean Baptiste Bloy and his wife Anne-Marie Carreau, pious Spanish-Catholic daughter of a Napoleonic soldier.
Jun 5, 2020 · In passages such as these, Bloy proffers, in guttural guise, a thesis that lurks in the work of such reputable scholars as Philip Rieff and Christian Smith: in the Time of the Bourgeois Mind, religion assumes a predominantly therapeutic character.
Mar 31, 2017 · This quotation by the French Catholic novelist Leon Bloy (from La Femme Pauvre) is more than simply a pious thought; it speaks of the deepest desire of our hearts for God and for human excellence.
