Journal Dun Simple Soldat Guerre Captivite 1914 1915

Author : Gaston Riou
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ISBN 13 : 9781331250494
Total Pages : 324 pages
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Download or read book The Diary of a French Private written by Gaston Riou and published by . This book was released on 2015-07-12 with total page 324 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from The Diary of a French Private: War Imprisonment 1914 1915 Gaston Riou was born on January 7, 1883. He is a native of the Cevennes, the region from which are derived three of the most distinguished among modern French psychologists, Melchior de Vogue, Auguste Sabatier, and Paul Bourget. The Cevenole family from which he springs played an active part in the wars of religion. On the mother's side he is related to Jacques de Vaucanson, the leading French mechanical engineer of the eighteenth century, and also to Majal Desubas, the last Huguenot martyr, executed at Montpellier in 1747. Thus by family tradition he is liberal, nonconformist, and republican. Propagandist by temperament, he devoted himself at an early age to the study of Christian origins. In 1905, at the Sorbonne, he wrote a thesis upon the De unitate of St. Cyprian. His first published writings dealt with the modernist movement of Loisy, Murri, and Tyrrell, and they attracted considerable attention in Italy and in Germany. The ardour which inspired them was very different from the rabies theologica. The young author, though Calvinist by conviction, adopted an attitude remote from partisanship, his view being, "Whatever is Christian, is ours." He insisted upon the need for a new synthesis, embracing at once the ancient faith and the actual conditions and the social life and thought of our day. He contended that the non-Roman churches scattered throughout the world might well constitute the embryo of a new Catholicism. But above alt, in this writer simultaneously republican and Christian believer, was manifest the earnest desire to reconcile the France of '89 with the Christian ideal and the longing to witness and to assist in the renovation of his country. Writing of him at this period, M. Emile Faguet, a noted French critic, declared: "His ardour, his fire, his impetus, the rush of his blood, are all instinct with the passion of patriotism." In the year 1913 this admixture of religious uneasiness and nationalist hope found expression in a volume entitled Aux ecoutes de la France qui vient, which from the first attracted widespread attention. Above all, this work embodies faith in France, and the leaders among the younger men of the country rallied round him who had ventured to proclaim this faith. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works."