Paul Bourget
French writer
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(Suggest an Edit or Addition)According to Wikipedia, Paul Charles Joseph Bourget was a French poet, novelist and critic. He was nominated for the Nobel Prize in Literature five times. Paul Bourget was born in Amiens, France. He initially abandoned Catholicism but eventually returned to it in the late 19th century. Bourget is known for his psychological and moralistic novels that often portrayed the complex emotions of women and the ideas, passions, and failures of young men in France. Some of his notable works include Le Disciple , a bestseller that explored the consequences of materialism and positivism, and other novels such as Cruelle Enigme , André Cornelis , and Mensonges . He was admitted to the Académie française in 1894 and was promoted to be an officer of the Légion d'honneur in 1895.
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