Bourget, Charles Joseph Paul
(1852–1935)
Bourget, Charles Joseph PaulBourget, Charles Joseph PaulCharles Joseph Paul Bourget (B * AMIENS, 1852 – D † PARIS, 1935) French poet, novelist, and critic, best known for his novels, written after studying contemporary psychology and analysis, describing fin-de-siècle unhappiness, the limitations of love, and dilemmas of conscience among the leisure class. As he aged, he turned increasingly to Catholicism, seeing in spirituality the only redemption for the problems of modern society, and thus…