Hilaire Belloc

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born

July 27, 1870 in La Celle-Saint-Cloud, France

died

July 16, 1953

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male

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Poetry, History, Religion & Spirituality

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Joseph Hilaire Pierre René Belloc was an Anglo-French writer and historian who became a naturalised British subject in 1902. He was one of the most prolific writers in England during the early twentieth century. He was known as a writer, orator, poet, satirist, man of letters, and political activist. He is most notable for his Catholic faith, which had a strong impact on most of his works and his writing collaboration with G. K. Chesterton. He was President of the Oxford Union and later MP for Salford from 1906 to 1910. He was a noted disputant, with a number of long-running feuds, but also widely regarded as a humane and sympathetic man.

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Average rating: 4.03 · 4,832 ratings · 417 reviews · 146 distinct works

	Cautionary Tales for Children by Hilaire Belloc, Edward Gorey (Illustrator) 4.34 avg rating — 1,188 ratings — published 1907 — 24 editions	My rating:
	How the Reformation Happened 4.07 avg rating — 87 ratings — published 1979 — 3 editions	My rating:
	The Great Heresies 4.21 avg rating — 81 ratings — published 1938 — 6 editions	My rating:
	The Servile State by Hilaire Belloc, Robert A. Nisbet 4.00 avg rating — 66 ratings — published 1912 — 12 editions	My rating:
	The Path to Rome 4.27 avg rating — 66 ratings — published 1902 — 28 editions	My rating:
	Europe and the Faith 3.97 avg rating — 38 ratings — published 1920 — 20 editions	My rating:
	Characters of the Reformation: Historical Portraits of the 23 Men and Women and Their Place in the Great Religious Revolution of the 16th Century 4.03 avg rating — 34 ratings — 2 editions	My rating:
	Matilda Who Told Such Dreadful Lies . . . . by Hilaire Belloc, Posy Simmonds (Illustrator) 4.45 avg rating — 31 ratings — published 1970 — 7 editions	My rating:
	Jim, Who Ran Away from His Nurse, and Was Eaten by a Lion by Hilaire Belloc, Mini Grey 4.18 avg rating — 49 ratings — published 1987 — 4 editions	My rating:
	The Crusades: The World's Debate 3.90 avg rating — 30 ratings — published 1992	My rating:

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“Wherever the Catholic sun doth shine,
There’s always laughter and good red wine.
At least I’ve always found it so.
Benedicamus Domino!”
― Hilaire Belloc

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“I have wandered all my life, and I have traveled; the difference between the two being this, that we wander for distraction, but we travel for fulfillment.”
― Hilaire Belloc

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“For no one, in our long decline,
So dusty, spiteful and divided,
Had quite such pleasant friends as mine,
Or loved them half as much as I did.”
― Hilaire Belloc

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