Georges Goyau was a French

France

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 historian and essayist specializing in religious

Religion

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 history.

Biography

He was born in Orléans

Orléans

-Prehistory and Roman:Cenabum was a Gallic stronghold, one of the principal towns of the Carnutes tribe where the Druids held their annual assembly. It was conquered and destroyed by Julius Caesar in 52 BC, then rebuilt under the Roman Empire...

, where he went to school before moving on to Lycée Louis-le-Grand

Lycée Louis-le-Grand

The Lycée Louis-le-Grand is a public secondary school located in Paris, widely regarded as one of the most rigorous in France. Formerly known as the Collège de Clermont, it was named in king Louis XIV of France's honor after he visited the school and offered his patronage.It offers both a...

 and then École Normale Supérieure

École Normale Supérieure

The École normale supérieure is one of the most prestigious French grandes écoles...

 both in Paris

Paris

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. Then he became lecturer at the French School of Rome, an institute for history

History

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, archaeology

Archaeology

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, and social sciences

Social sciences

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, in 1892. From 1894, he wrote for the Revue des deux mondes

Revue des deux mondes

The Revue des deux Mondes is a French language monthly literary and cultural affairs magazine that has been published in Paris since 1829....

, a monthly literary and cultural affairs magazine, publishing a lot of articles on Catholic history

History of the Roman Catholic Church

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, for example: L’Allemagne religieuse : le protestantisme et le catholicisme (The religious Germany: Protestantism and Catholicism), L’Église libre dans l’Europe libre (The free Church in the free Europe), Les Origines religieuses du Canada (The religious origins of Canada), L’Effort catholique dans la France d’aujourd’hui (The Catholic efforts in today's France), and Le Catholicisme, doctrine d’action (Catholicism, doctrine of action). In 1922, he was elected a member of the Académie française

Académie française

L'Académie française , also called the French Academy, is the pre-eminent French learned body on matters pertaining to the French language. The Académie was officially established in 1635 by Cardinal Richelieu, the chief minister to King Louis XIII. Suppressed in 1793 during the French Revolution,...

, where he would serve as secretary for the rest of his life.

He became son-in-law of the French president Félix Faure

Félix Faure

Félix François Faure was President of France from 1895 until his death.-Biography:Félix François Faure was born in Paris, the son of a small furniture maker...

. His second marriage was to the Catholic writer Juliette Heuzey, who published a book called Dieu premier servi. Georges Goyau : sa vie et son œuvre in his memory in 1947