Paul Bourget

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Biography

French novelist, poet and critic (Amiens, 2 September 1852 – Paris, 25 December 1935).

  • Real name
  • Paul Charles Joseph Bourget
  • Name variations
  • Bourget·P. Bourget·П. Бурже
  • Primary profession
  • Writer·soundtrack
  • Country
  • France
  • Nationality
  • French
  • Gender
  • Male
  • Birth date
  • 02 September 1852
  • Place of birth
  • Amiens
  • Death date
  • 1935-12-25
  • Death age
  • 83
  • Place of death
  • Paris
  • Education
  • Lycée Louis-le-Grand·École pratique des hautes études·Collège Sainte-Barbe
  • Knows language
  • French language
  • Member of
  • Ligue de la patrie française·Académie française·Action Française

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Quotes

At certain moments, words are nothing; it is thetone in which they are uttered.

Flirting is the sin of the virtuous and the virtue of thesinful.

Unhappiness indicates wrong thinking just as ill health indicates a bad regimen.

One must live the way one thinks or end up thinking the way one has lived.

Unhappiness indicates wrong thinking just as ill health indicates a bad regimen. .

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