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Léon Bloy

Born

in Notre-Dame-de-Sanilhac, France

July 11, 1846

Died

November 03, 1917

Genre

Literature & Fiction, Religion & Spirituality

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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. After an agnostic and unhappy youth in which he cultivated an intense hatred for the Roman Catholic Church and its teaching, his father found him a job in Paris, where he went in 1864. In December 1868, he met the aging Catholic author Barbey d'Aurevilly, who lived opposite him in rue Rousselet and became his mentor. Shortly afterwards, he underwent a dramatic religious conversion.

Bloy's works reflect a deepening devotion to the Catholic Church and most generally a trem ...more

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	Disagreeable Tales by Léon Bloy, Erik Butler (Translator) 3.55 avg rating — 560 ratings — published 1894 — 74 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Woman Who Was Poor by Léon Bloy, I.J. Collins (Translator) 3.98 avg rating — 181 ratings — published 1897 — 84 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Le Désespéré 3.95 avg rating — 175 ratings — published 1887 — 78 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Exégèse Des Lieux Communs 3.74 avg rating — 93 ratings — published 1912 — 59 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Sweating Blood by Léon Bloy, Erik Butler (Translator) 4.02 avg rating — 84 ratings — published 1893 — 44 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	L'Âme de Napoléon 3.75 avg rating — 57 ratings — published 1912 — 3 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Le sang du pauvre 4.22 avg rating — 46 ratings — published 1909 — 30 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Pilgrim of the Absolute 4.13 avg rating — 40 ratings — published 1947 — 6 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	En tinieblas 4.08 avg rating — 36 ratings — published 1918 — 30 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	La que llora: Nuestra Señora de La Salette by Léon Bloy, Juan Manuel de Prada (Foreword), Almudena Montojo Micó (Translator) 4.50 avg rating — 28 ratings — published 1908 — 39 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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“Man has places in his heart which do not yet exist, and into them enters suffering, in order that they may have existence.”
― Léon Bloy

tags: suffering

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“The only real sadness, the only real failure, the only great tragedy in life, is not to become a saint.”
― Léon Bloy

tags: failure, goal, saint, triumph

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“Any Christian who is not a hero is a pig.”
― Leon Bloy

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