Péguy

/ peɡi /

noun

1. PéguyCharles18731914MFrenchWRITING: poetWRITING: essayist Charles (ʃarl). 1873–1914, French poet and essayist, whose works include Le Mystère de la charité de Jeanne d'Arc (1910); founder of the journal Cahiers de la quinzaine (1900–14): killed in World War I

Example Sentences

This is a philosophical reflection which relates to the original title, which is a quote from Charles Péguy.

From Salon

“We rarely have empty beds. Malnutrition is a serious problem,” said Dr. Péguy Lundy, a Haitian doctor who attends to these children.

From Seattle Times

All of this is, as you might imagine, defiantly obtuse, the movie's disaffectedly delivered dialogue — which was culled from a pair of Peguy texts about the martyred heroine's youth — squeezed obstinately between Dumont's statically composed community theater aesthetics and a churningly melodic fuzz-and-thrash score by Gallic death-metal outfit Igorrr.

From Los Angeles Times

Now, with "Jeannette: The Childhood of Joan of Arc," in which the legendary teenage saint gets the rock-opera treatment by way of French poet Charles Peguy, Dumont is flirting with whether there's something compellingly alchemic in wrapping the kind of spiritual allegories that once dominated his movies, in a package of occasionally unabashed loopiness.

From Los Angeles Times

Historical drama written and directed by Bruno Dumont, based on novels by Charles Péguy.

From Los Angeles Times