Gustave Thibon was a French philosopher.

He loved poetry very early although he left school at the age of thirteen, especially Victor Hugo

Victor Hugo

Victor-Marie Hugo was a Frenchpoet, playwright, novelist, essayist, visual artist, statesman, human rights activist and exponent of the Romantic movement in France....

 and the Parnasse. He was very impressed by First World War, what led him to hate patriotism and democracy. Young Gustave Thibon travelled to London and to Italy. He did his military duty in North Africa, then returned to his village at the age of 23.

During the Second World War he hosted the philosopher Simone Weil

Simone Weil

Simone Weil , was a French philosopher, Christian mystic, and social activist.-Biography:Weil was born in Paris to Alsatian agnostic Jewish parents who fled the annexation of Alsace-Lorraine to Germany. She grew up in comfortable circumstances, and her father was a doctor. Her only sibling was...

at his farm ; he published S. Weil's work La Pesanteur et la grâce (Gravity and Grace) in 1957.

Works

• La science du caractère, Paris, Desclée de Brouwer, 1934.
• Poèmes - L'édition universelle, Bruxelles, 1940.
• Destin de l'homme, Paris, Desclée de Brouwer, 1941.
• L'échelle de Jacob, Lyon, Lardanchet, 1942.
• Retour au réel, 1943.
• Le pain de chaque jour, Monaco, Editions du rocher, 1945.
• Chateaubriand, Monaco, Editions du Rocher, 1948.
• Nietzsche ou le déclin de l'esprit, Lyon, Lardanchet, 1948.
• Paysages du Vivarais, Paris, Plon, 1949.
• Diagnostics, Paris, Librairie de Médicis, 1940.
• La crise moderne de l'amour, Paris, Editions Universitaires, 1953.
• Vous serez comme des dieux, Fayard théâtre, 1959.
• Ce que Dieu a uni, Paris, Fayard 1967.
• L'ignorance étoilée, Fayard, 1974.
• Notre regard qui manque à la lumière, Paris, Fayard, 1975.
• Entretiens avec Christian Chabanis, Fayard, 1975.
• L'équilibre et l'harmonie, 1976.
• Le voile et le masque, Paris, Fayard, 1985.
• Au soir de ma vie, mémoires, Plon, 1993.
• L'illusion féconde, Fayard, Paris, 1995.
• Aux ailes de la lettre, pensées inédites (1932–1982), Monaco, éditions du Rocher, 2006.
• Gustave Thibon : témoin de la lumière par Christian Chabanis, Beauchesne, janvier 1967.
• Entretiens avec G. Thibon, par Philippe Barthelet, Paris, La Place royale, 1988.