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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...
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    staircase of terrified Syntax." (Léon Bloy, quoted in Robert Baldick, The Life of J.-K. Huysmans). Critical reviews by Léon Bloy of À rebours, En rade, and...
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  • and 1974 Harry Bloy (born 1946), former BC Liberal Member of the Legislative Assembly in the province of British Columbia, Canada Léon Bloy (1846–1917),...
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    Disagreeable Tales (category Works by Léon Bloy)
    désobligeantes) is an 1894 short story collection by the French writer Léon Bloy. It consists of thirty tales set in Paris, focusing on criminality, perversions...
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  • The Desperate Man (novel) (category Works by Léon Bloy)
    Desperate Man (Le Désespéré in French) is a novel written by French author Léon Bloy and originally prepared for publication in 1886 but officially published...
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  • The Woman Who Was Poor (category Works by Léon Bloy)
    French writer Léon Bloy. It follows a woman, Clotilde, who becomes involved with the Paris art and literary scene in the 1880s. It was Bloy's second novel...
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    Paix, in Namur, where he read and subscribed to the ideas of Léon Bloy, Charles Péguy, Léon Daudet, and especially Charles Maurras. Degrelle next enrolled...
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  • abstract painter Leon Berry (1914–1996), American organist Leon Best (born 1986), Irish football player Léon Bloy (1846–1917), French writer Léon Blum (1872–1950)...
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    has said his father was interested in French humanist writers such as Léon Bloy and Jacques Maritain, while his mother was fond of Catholic Worker Movement's...
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    Zigliara Matthias Joseph Scheeben Émile Boutroux Modernism Neo-scholasticism Léon Bloy Désiré-Joseph Mercier Friedrich von Hügel Vladimir Solovyov Marie-Joseph...
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