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247: 20: 129:). His conversion was bound up with a devoutly Catholic naval officer, Pierre Dominique Dupouey, whom he met only three times in the space of a few weeks, but who impressed him greatly. It was again Gide who was the occasion for this fateful encounter: when Ghéon left for the Belgian front, Gide urged him to try to find Dupouey, who had once been his disciple and with whom he still corresponded. On 238:. The chorus announces each section's title but the female soloist delivers most of the text. The music of the central movements that take Christ's passion as their subject are, according to one commentator, "remarkable for its restraint as for its dissonance". 118:," he wrote, "with Christ dying on the cross and the Virgin waiting for the angel in a bare and silent corridor..., even our senses had a soul. Art had transported me before, but never so high." 140:
He founded the "Compagnons de Notre Dame" (Companions of Our Lady), a sort of amateur theatre confraternity of young people, for which he wrote over 60 plays, usually on episodes from the
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It was the sceptic Gide who occasioned the first cracks in Ghéon's paganism when he invited him to visit Florence with him in 1912. There Ghéon discovered the religious art of
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He served as an army doctor in the First World War. During this period he regained his Catholic faith, as described in his work
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He moved to Paris in 1893 to study medicine. Around the same time, he started to write poetry, along with his colleagues
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volume III, p. 1314-1317, éditions universitaires Fribourg Suisse, éditions Saint Paul Paris, 1984
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La Fille du sultan et le bon jardinier. Conte en trois tableaux d'après une chanson flamande
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composed in September 1923 uses texts by Ghéon as meditations on the fifteen decades of the
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La Quête héroïque du Graal. Action romanesque et féerique en cinq parties et dix tableaux
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La Merveilleuse Histoire du jeune Bernard de Menthon. En trois journées et un épilogue
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Le théâtre d'Henri Ghéon : Contribution à l'étude du renouveau théâtral
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mother, he lost his faith in his early teens, while still at the Lycée in
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Ghéon died of cancer in a Paris clinic on 13 June 1944, a week after the
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Le Pauvre sous l'escalier. Trois Épisodes d'après la vie de saint Alexis
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Henri Ghéon, camarade de Gide : Biographie d'un homme de désirs
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Féerie le petit Poucet, impromptu en trois actes pour les enfants
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Foi en la France poèmes du temps de guerre per patriam ad dominum
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Memorial plaque on Henri Ghéonat's Paris home 68 rue Saint-Didier
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Henri Ghéon, camarade de Gide: Biographie d'un homme de désirs
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La Parade du Pont du diable d'après la légende de Saint Kado
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Le Comédien et la grâce, pièce d'après la vie de Saint Genès
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Converts to Roman Catholicism from atheism or agnosticism
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and six days after the opening of his most recent play,
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and was overwhelmed to the point of shedding tears. "At
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Le Pain. Tragédie populaire en 4 actes et 5 tableaux
387:Promenades avec Mozart, l'homme, l'œuvre, le pays 803: 201:, his theatre loses nothing in comparison with 93:, which was one of the inspirations for Gide's 857:20th-century French dramatists and playwrights 852:19th-century French dramatists and playwrights 603:US National Centre for Biological Information 402:Le Noël sur la place ou les enfances de Jésus 286:Partis Pris. Réflexions sur l'art littéraire 133:, 1915, Dupouey was killed in action on the 99:. In 1909 they were founding members of the 16:French playwright, novelist, poet and critic 257:La Solitude de l'été. Les campagnes simples 630:, Harvard University Press, 1999, p. xiii. 336:La Vie Profonde de Saint François d'Assise 737:. Taylor & Francis. pp. 178–82. 701:. Taylor & Francis. pp. 178–82. 638: 636: 617:, New York: Sheed and Ward, 1940, p. 51. 451:Judith. Œdipe ou le crépuscule des dieux 245: 18: 922:French LGBTQ dramatists and playwrights 728: 692: 658: 656: 498:Correspondance Henri Ghéon - André Gide 804: 722: 633: 280:Jeux et miracles pour le peuple fidèle 381:Épiphanie ou le voyage des trois rois 30:(15 March 1875 – 13 June 1944), born 653: 644:"Henri Ghéon, un chrétien tourmenté" 550:Henri Ghéon. L'homme né de la guerre 504:Correspondance Vielé-Griffin - Ghéon 532:, Les presses d'Ile-de-France, 1946 310:Le Triomphe de Saint Thomas d'Aquin 298:Les Trois Miracles de Sainte Cécile 187:In 2008 the writer and philosopher 91:La Vie secrète de Guillaume Arnoult 13: 683:, Presses de la Renaissance, 2008. 615:Sidelights on the Catholic Revival 578:, Presses de la Renaissance, 2008 14: 948: 791:The Secret of Saint Margaret Mary 762: 628:André Gide: A Life in the Present 932:20th-century French male writers 927:19th-century French male writers 342:Les Trois Sagesses du vieux Wang 937:French male non-fiction writers 770:The Secret of the Little Flower 519: 461:Dramaturgie d'hier et de demain 897:Gay dramatists and playwrights 784:The Secret of Saint John Bosco 686: 673: 620: 607: 596: 484:Les Jeux de l’enfer et du ciel 360:Les Jeux de l'enfer et du ciel 158:Les Jeux de l'enfer et du ciel 1: 867:20th-century French novelists 862:19th-century French novelists 733:. In Potter, Caroline (ed.). 697:. In Potter, Caroline (ed.). 679:Catherine Boschian-Campaner. 589: 182: 827:Deaths from cancer in France 797:The Secret of the Curé d'Ars 668:Letter of Saint-Joseph Abbey 292:La Bergère au pays des loups 45: 7: 572:Catherine Boschian-Campaner 368:(roman), Fkammarion, (1930) 10: 953: 812:People from Seine-et-Marne 735:French Music Since Berlioz 699:French Music Since Berlioz 173:Allied landing in Normandy 81:criticism. In 1887 he met 150:mystery and miracle plays 127:The Man Born from the War 23:Henri Ghéon by Jean Veber 731:"Church and Organ Music" 695:"Church and Organ Music" 366:La Vieille Dame des rues 241: 162:Games of Hell and Heaven 101:Nouvelle Revue Française 729:Simeone, Nigel (2017). 693:Simeone, Nigel (2017). 662:Dom Antoine Marie osb. 489:La Cathédrale Incendiée 408:Noêl ! Noël ! 275:L'Homme né de la guerre 123:L'homme né de la guerre 62:says, "His was a happy 50:Brought up by a devout 917:French LGBTQ novelists 907:Roman Catholic writers 877:French Roman Catholics 842:French medical writers 251: 24: 902:LGBTQ Roman Catholics 249: 22: 433:Les Détours imprévus 348:Demos esclave et roi 220:was set to music by 77:. He also published 546:Geneviève Duhamelet 445:Marie, Mère de Dieu 146:lives of the saints 912:French LGBTQ poets 847:French gay writers 837:French biographers 776:2011-07-16 at the 564:Œuvres complètes, 324:Thérèse de Lisieux 252: 232:Le Miroir de Jésus 222:Hendrik Andriessen 164:), centred on the 154:Académie française 25: 642:Fabrice Hadjadj. 536:Maurice Deléglise 230:'s oratorio-like 75:Stéphane Mallarmé 944: 756: 755: 753: 751: 726: 720: 719: 717: 715: 690: 684: 677: 671: 660: 651: 640: 631: 624: 618: 611: 605: 600: 556:Jacques Maritain 456:L'Art du théâtre 952: 951: 947: 946: 945: 943: 942: 941: 802: 801: 778:Wayback Machine 765: 760: 759: 749: 747: 745: 727: 723: 713: 711: 709: 691: 687: 678: 674: 670:, May 13, 2008. 661: 654: 650:, 18 June 2008. 641: 634: 626:Alan Sheridan. 625: 621: 612: 608: 601: 597: 592: 522: 517: 477:Claire d'Assise 244: 218:Miroir de Peine 189:Fabrice Hadjadj 185: 48: 17: 12: 11: 5: 950: 940: 939: 934: 929: 924: 919: 914: 909: 904: 899: 894: 889: 884: 882:Lay Dominicans 879: 874: 869: 864: 859: 854: 849: 844: 839: 834: 829: 824: 819: 814: 800: 799: 794: 787: 780: 764: 763:External links 761: 758: 757: 743: 721: 707: 685: 672: 652: 632: 619: 606: 594: 593: 591: 588: 587: 586: 584:978-2750904067 569: 553: 543: 533: 521: 518: 516: 515: 501: 495: 486: 481: 472: 463: 458: 453: 448: 442: 436: 430: 424: 416: 411: 405: 399: 390: 384: 378: 369: 363: 357: 351: 345: 339: 333: 327: 319: 313: 307: 301: 295: 289: 283: 277: 272: 266: 260: 253: 243: 240: 184: 181: 71:Francis Jammes 52:Roman Catholic 47: 44: 40:Seine-et-Marne 36:Bray-sur-Seine 15: 9: 6: 4: 3: 2: 949: 938: 935: 933: 930: 928: 925: 923: 920: 918: 915: 913: 910: 908: 905: 903: 900: 898: 895: 893: 892:Gay novelists 890: 888: 885: 883: 880: 878: 875: 873: 870: 868: 865: 863: 860: 858: 855: 853: 850: 848: 845: 843: 840: 838: 835: 833: 830: 828: 825: 823: 820: 818: 815: 813: 810: 809: 807: 798: 795: 793: 792: 788: 786: 785: 781: 779: 775: 772: 771: 767: 766: 746: 744:9781351566476 740: 736: 732: 725: 710: 708:9781351566476 704: 700: 696: 689: 682: 676: 669: 665: 664:"Henri Ghéon" 659: 657: 649: 645: 639: 637: 629: 623: 616: 613:F. 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Index


Bray-sur-Seine
Seine-et-Marne
Roman Catholic
Sens
F. J. Sheed
atheism
Francis Jammes
Stéphane Mallarmé
avant garde
André Gide
Alan Sheridan
Corydon
Nouvelle Revue Française
Giotto
Fra Angelico
St Mark's
Holy Saturday
Yser
Gospel
lives of the saints
mystery and miracle plays
Académie française
Curè d'Ars
Allied landing in Normandy
Fabrice Hadjadj
Le Figaro
Dickens
Anouilh
Giraudoux

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