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Hilaire Belloc
Joseph Hilaire Pierre René Belloc was a French-English writer and political activist. Belloc was considered one of the most versatile authors of the 20th century, producing essays on history, politics and economics as well as poetry, travelogues and satire. His Catholicism had a strong effect on his works.
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culture · French-English author (1870–1953) · writer · poet · politician · journalist · historian · biographer · also Hilaire Belloc, Hilaire Pierre Belloc, Belloc
Born 27 July 1870 · Died 16 July 1953 · Q333106
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2026· 5 entries
“Henry King, Who Chewed Bits of String, and Was Early Cut off in Dreadful Agonies”
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“Dedication on the Gift of a Book to a Child”
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“that all wars and revolutions, and all decisive struggles between parties of men arise from a difference in moral and transcendental doctrine.”
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1968· 1 entry
For the Musical Heritage Society (MHC 9249M)
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1953· 6 entries
Died 1953-07-16.
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“Variant: I have wandered all my life, and I have traveled; the difference between the two is this — we wander for distraction, but we travel for fulfillment.”
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“Gentlemen, I am a Catholic. As far as possible, I go to Mass every day. This [taking a rosary out of his pocket] is a rosary. As far as possible, I kneel down and tell these beads every day. If you reject me on account of my religion, I shall thank God that He has spared me the indignity of being your representative.”
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“I have wandered all my life, and I have also traveled; the difference between the two being this, that we wander for distraction, but we travel for fulfillment.”
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“Trzaskanie Drzwiami przez Małe DziewczynkiLiczy się między Najgorsze Uczynki.Kultywowała ów Grzech bez ustankuCórka pewnego Właściciela Banku,Rebeka von und zu Schlaffenschluss-Schnorrt,Dla której był to Ulubiony Sport.”
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“Lord Finchley sam naprawiał prąd: po dwóch minutachZostał z niego zwęglony trup. I dobrze mu tak!Rolą ludzi zamożnych na społecznej scenieJest dawać rzemieślnikom płatne zatrudnienie.”
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1942· 1 entry
Belloc suffered a stroke and never recovered from its effects
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1938· 1 entry
“Muslim culture happens to have fallen back in material applications; there is no reason whatever why it should not learn its new lesson and become our equal in all those temporal things which now alone give us our superiority over it—whereas in Faith we have fallen inferior to it.”
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1937· 1 entry
Belloc was invited to be a visiting professor at Fordham University in New York City by university president Robert Gannon
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1935· 1 entry
Moved away to live with Belloc at King's Land
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1934· 1 entry
Awarded Knight Grand Officer of the Order of St. Gregory the Great (1934).
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1922· 1 entry
“the continued presence of the Jewish nation intermixed with other nations alien to it presents a permanent problem of the gravest character”
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1920· 1 entry
One of Belloc's more famous statements equated European society with Christendom: "the faith is Europe and Europe is the faith"; this view was expressed in many of his works from 1920 to 1940, which are still cited as exemplary Catholic apologetics.
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1918· 1 entry
While serving in the Royal Flying Corps in northern France
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1910· 2 entries
Career landmark: member of the 29th Parliament of the United Kingdom (1910–1910).
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“Matilda, Who Told Lies, and Was Burned to Death”
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1909· 1 entry
Belloc published The Pyrenees, providing many details of that region
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1907· 1 entry
“Jim, Who Ran Away From His Nurse, and Was Eaten by a Lion”
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1906· 3 entries
Belloc bought land and a house called King's Land at Shipley, West Sussex
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“nacker Mill, The South Country, the travel guide Sussex (1906) and The County of Sussex (1936). One of his best-known works relating to Sussex is The Four Men: A Farrago (1911), in which the four characters, each aspects of Belloc”
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Career landmark: member of the 28th Parliament of the United Kingdom (1906–1910).
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1902· 1 entry
Belloc published The Path to Rome, an account of a walking pilgrimage from Central France across the Alps to Rome
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1899· 1 entry
When he "attended a meeting on the principles of Liberalism, at which Hilaire Belloc spoke brilliantly although Murray could not afterwards remember a word that he had said
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1890· 1 entry
“when I was but twenty years old”
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1872· 1 entry
Five years after their marriage, Louis died but not before being ruined in a stock market crash
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1870· 2 entries
Born 1870-07-27.
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Belloc became a naturalised British subject in 1902 while retaining his French citizenship
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1867· 1 entry
Bessie Rayner Parkes married Louis Belloc, an attorney, son of Jean-Hilaire Belloc and Louise Swanton Belloc
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