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Charles Péguy

L’Argent

followed by L’Argent suite

1913

In 1913, a year before he fell at the opening of the battle of the Marne, Charles Péguy published two long essays in his Cahiers de la quinzaine. He begins with the Orléans of his childhood, with artisans for whom a chair leg had to be well made even where no one would see it, and turns against a world in which money has become the measure of everything. L’Argent and its sequel are among the most violent and the most moving pages of French prose.

The first essay holds the famous portrait of the young schoolteachers of the Republic, the “black hussars” of his youth; the second becomes a polemic against the academics and politicians of the day. Both are given here complete, in the original French.

The edition

Languages

Français

Contents

Preface · About the author · Complete text · Summary · Analysis

Formats

Kindle ebook

Cover

Camille Pissarro, La Place du Théâtre-Français