caption death_date death_place religion birth_place nationality name birth_date image article_title birth_name occupation
portrait 1908 of charles péguy , by jean-pierre laurens , 4 september 1914 villeroy , seine-et-marne , france roman catholic -lrb- converted -rrb- orléans , france french charles péguy 7 january 1873 charles peguy.jpg charles péguy
 charles pierre péguy writer
charles péguy

charles pierre péguy -lrb- ; january 7 , 1873 -- september 4 , 1914 -rrb- was a noted french poet , essayist , and editor born in orléans .
his two main philosophies were socialism and nationalism , but by 1908 at the latest , after years of uneasy agnosticism , he had become a believing but non-practicing roman catholic .
from that time , catholicism strongly influenced his works .
