Hilaire belloc biography

BORN: 1870, Le Celle St. Cloud, France

DIED: 1953, King's Land, England

NATIONALITY: British, French

GENRE: Nonfiction, fiction, poetry

MAJOR WORKS:
The Bad Child's Book of Beasts (1896)
The Path to Rome (1902)
The Servile State (1912)
A Companion to Mr.

Wells's “Outline of History” (1926)
Essays of a Catholic Layman in England (1931)

Overview

Hilaire Belloc was one of the most controversial and accomplished men of letters of early twentieth-century England.

He was a productive historian, novelist, and essayist as well as a poet, noted for his light verse for children. More importantly, Belloc was recognized as an outspoken proponent of radical social and economic reforms, all grounded in his vision of Europe as a “Catholic society.”

Works in Biographical and Historical Context

Born into Political Instability The son of a wealthy French father and English mother, Belloc was born Joseph Hilaire Pierre Sebastien Rene Swanton Belloc in La