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Belloc, Hilaire, 1870-1953
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The British writer Joseph Hilaire Peter Belloc was born in Celle Saint-Cloud, France on 27 July 1870. In 1896 he married an American, Elodie Hogan, with whom he had five children-three sons and two daughters: Louis (1897), Eleanor (1899), Elizabeth (1900), Hilary (1902) and Peter (1904). Belloc began his literary career with Verses and Sonnets (1895). He next publishedThe Bad Child's Book of Beasts (1896), a collection of nonsense verse that was so popular it sold out in four days. Belloc then produced a series of biographies that includedDanton (1899) andRobespiere (1901). In 1902 he publishedPath to Rome, which is perhaps his most representative work for its combination of Belloc’s love for travel, as well as his fierce Roman Catholicism. It recounts Belloc's journey on foot from Toul, France to Rome, Italy.
In 1906 Belloc was elected to the House of Commons as the representative for South Salford, a seat that he held until 1910. He left his political career to pursue journalism, founding the pol
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Hilaire Belloc
French-English writer (1870–1953)
Joseph Hilaire Pierre René Belloc (, French:[ilɛːʁbɛlɔk]; 27 July 1870[1] – 16 July 1953) was a French-English writer, politician, and historian. Belloc was also an orator, poet, sailor, satirist, writer of letters, soldier, and political activist. His Catholic faith had a strong effect on his works.
Belloc became a naturalised British subject in 1902 while retaining his French citizenship.[2] While attending Oxford University, he served as President of the Oxford Union. From 1906 to 1910, he served as one of the few openly Catholic members of the British Parliament.
Belloc was a noted disputant, with a number of long-running feuds. He was also a close friend and collaborator of G. K. Chesterton. George Bernard Shaw, a friend and frequent debate opponent of both Belloc and Chesterton, dubbed the pair the "Chesterbelloc".[3][4][5]
Belloc's writings encompassed religious poetry and comic verse for children. His widely sold Cautionary Tales for Childre Hilaire Belloc (1870-1953) was a larger-than-life character who is now best known for his Cautionary Verses but who also wrote fiction, essays, history, biography and huge numbers of letters. He was born in a village just outside Paris on the eve of the Franco-Prussian war. His father, Louis, was a French lawyer, his mother, Elizabeth Rayner Parkes, the English daughter of a Birmingham Radical. Belloc’s combative nature was evident from an early age; his nickname as a child was ‘Old Thunder’. As he grew up his fierceness in argument became legendary, H. G. Wells remaking that “debating with Mr. Belloc, is like arguing with a hailstorm.” Following the death of his father in 1872, the family returned to Birmingham where Belloc was educated at Cardinal Newman’s Oratory School. Although not legally obliged to do so, on leaving school, Belloc served a term of military service with the French army. Back in England, Belloc went to Balliol College, Oxford University where he became President of the Oxford Union, the University’s
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