Paul Claudel

Paul Claudel was a French poet, dramatist and diplomat, and the younger brother of the sculptress Camille Claudel. He was most famous for his verse dramas, which often convey his devout Catholicism. Claudel was nominated for the Nobel Prize in Literature in six different years.

He was born in VilleneuvesurFre , into a family of farmers and government officials. His father, LouisProsper, dealt in mortgages and bank transactions. His mother, the former Louise Cerveaux, came from a Champagne family of Catholic farmers and priests. Having spent his first years in Champagne, he studied at the lyce of BarleDuc and at the Lyce LouisleGrand in 1881, when his parents moved to Paris. An unbeliever in his teenage years, he experienced a sudden conversion at the age of eighteen on Christmas Day 1886 while listening to a choir sing Vespers in the cathedral of Notre Dame de Paris In an instant, my heart was touched, and I believed. He would remain a strong Catholic for the rest of his life. He studied at the Paris Institute of Political Studies .

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