Fillinges

Commune, literature was invaded by ideas and writers became publicists in the intense debate which set Progress, the goal of science and positivism, against the Order defined by monarchism and the Church. By the 1890s, novelists in particular were filling the ranks of what, after 1898, would be called ‘intellectuals’. Léon Bloy (1846–1917), anticipating a new Catholic revival, denounced the materialism of society, Maurice Barrès (1862–1923) redefined nationalism, and Charles Péguy (1873–1914) promoted

why he had taken the money from his pocket. He remembered about it as he was passing an eating-house, a sort of cook-shop, and felt that he wanted to eat. Going into the cook-shop, he drank a glass of vodka and ate a piece of pie with some sort of filling. He finished it on the road. He had not drunk vodka for a very long time and it affected him at once, though he had drunk only one glass. His feet suddenly became heavy, and he began feeling a strong inclination to sleep. He started for home; but