Léon Bloy

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Léon Bloy was a French Catholic writer and polemicist known for his fervent religious convictions, apocalyptic vision, and scathing social criticism that deeply impacted thinkers like Jacques Maritain.

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Predicate Object
instanceOf Catholic writer
French writer
human
polemicist
causeOfDeath cancer
countryOfCitizenship France
dateOfBirth 1846-07-11
dateOfDeath 1917-11-03
familyName Bloy
genre diary
essay
novel
religious literature
social criticism
givenName Léon
hasSignature Signature Léon Bloy.svg
influenced Charles Péguy
Ernest Hello
Flannery O’Connor
linked to: Flannery O'Connor

Georges Bernanos
Jacques Maritain
Jorge Luis Borges
Raïssa Maritain
languageOfWorkOrName French
movement Catholic literary revival
name Léon Bloy
notableIdea apocalyptic Catholic vision of history
radical critique of bourgeois society
theology of suffering and poverty
notableWork Exégèse des lieux communs
Journal
La Femme pauvre
Le Désespéré
Le Salut par les Juifs
occupation essayist
journalist
literary critic
novelist
polemicist
writer
placeOfBirth Dordogne
France
Périgueux
placeOfDeath Bourg-la-Reine
France
Hauts-de-Seine
religion Roman Catholicism
residence Paris
sexOrGender male
spouse Jeanne Molbech

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