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The list French mystics includes Victor Hugo, Elizabeth of the Trinity, Reginald Garrigou-Lagrange, Charles de Foucauld and Marguerite Marie Alacoque. The list consists of 16 members.
  • 1.

    Victor Hugo
    French novelist, poet, and dramatist (1802–1885)
    Victor Hugo
    Overview: Victor-Marie Hugo ( 26 February 1802 – 22 May 1885) was a French poet, novelist, essayist, playwright, and dramatist of the Romantic movement. During a literary career that spanned more than sixty years ...
    Date of birth: 26 February 1802
    Date of death: 22 May 1885
    Age: 83 (age at death)
    Nationality: French
    Occupation: Writer
    Gender: Male
    Height: 5' 10" (178 cm)
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    Philosophical theists 22T
    French writers exiled in Belgium 2T
    Literary peers 21T
  • 2.

    Elizabeth of the Trinity
    French Carmelite nun and mystic
    Elizabeth of the Trinity
    Overview: Blessed Elizabeth of the Trinity, OCD (French: Élisabeth de la Trinité), (July 18, 1880 – November 9, 1906) was a French Discalced Carmelite nun, mystic, and spiritual writer. She has been beatified by ...
    Date of birth: 18 July 1880
    Date of death: 9 November 1906
    Age: 26 (age at death)
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    19th-century Christian mystics 69T
    20th-century Christian mystics 132T
    Venerated Carmelites 64T
  • 3.

    Charles de Foucauld
    French Catholic priest and hermit
    Charles de Foucauld
    Overview: Charles Eugène de Foucauld, Viscount of Foucauld, (15 September 1858 - 1 December 1916), was a cavalry officer in the French Army, then an explorer and geographer, and finally a Catholic priest, hermit ...
    Date of birth: 15 September 1858
    Date of death: 1 December 1916
    Age: 58 (age at death)
    Nationality: French
    Occupation: Religion
    Gender: Male
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    Trappist beatified people 4T
    19th-century Christian mystics 69T
    20th-century Christian mystics 132T
  • 4.

    Claire Ferchaud
    French Catholic visionary
    Claire Ferchaud
    Overview: Claire Ferchaud (May 5, 1896 - January 29, 1972), in religion Sister Claire of Jesus Crucified was a French visionary and mystic, whose claims were ultimately rejected by the Catholic Church. She was linked ...
    Date of birth: 5 May 1896
    Date of death: 29 January 1972
    Age: 75 (age at death)
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    20th-century Christian mystics 132T
    French women in World War I 21T
    Roman Catholic mystics 201T
  • 5.

    Reginald Garrigou-Lagrange
    French theologian
    Reginald Garrigou-Lagrange
    Overview: Réginald Marie Garrigou-Lagrange (21 February 1877 – 15 February 1964) was a French Dominican friar, philosopher and theologian. Garrigou-Lagrange was a neo-Thomist theologian, recognized along with Édouard ...
    Date of birth: 21 February 1877
    Date of death: 15 February 1964
    Age: 86 (age at death)
    Nationality: French
    Occupation: Philosopher
    Gender: Male
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    20th-century Christian mystics 132T
    20th-century French Catholic theologians 30T
    French male writers 4,032T
  • 6.

    Marguerite Marie Alacoque
    Catholic Saint and Mystic
    Marguerite Marie Alacoque
    Overview: Margaret Mary Alacoque, VHM (French: Marguerite-Marie Alacoque) (22 July 1647 – 17 October 1690), was a French Catholic Visitation nun and mystic who promoted devotion to the Sacred Heart of Jesus in its ...
    Date of birth: 22 July 1647
    Date of death: 17 October 1690
    Age: 43 (age at death)
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    Women mystics 93T
    17th-century Christian mystics 87T
    17th-century French women 42T
  • 7.

    Paul Sédir
    French mystic and esotericist
    Paul Sédir
    Overview: Paul Sédir or Sédir (born Yvon Le Loup; 2 January 1871 - 3 February 1926) was a French mystic and esotericist, notable as the author on several works on esotericism and Christian mysticism.
    Date of birth: 2 January 1871
    Age: 154
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    People from Dinan 30T
    Esotericists 76T
    1871 births 3,471T
  • 8.
    Overview: Georges-Albert Puyou de Pouvourville (pen name: Matgioi; 7 August 1861 – 30 December 1939) was a French orientalist, mystic, poet, and translator.
    Date of birth: 7 August 1861
    Date of death: 30 December 1939
    Age: 78 (age at death)
    Nationality: French
    Occupation: Poet
    Gender: Male
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    Christian de Chergé
    French Roman Catholic Cistercian monk
    Overview: Charles-Marie Christian de Chergé, O.C.S.O (Colmar, 18 January 1937 - 21 May 1996), was a French Roman Catholic Cistercian monk. He was one of the seven monks from the Abbey of Our Lady of Atlas in Ti ...
    Date of birth: 17 January 1937
    Date of death: 21 May 1996
    Age: 59 (age at death)
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    20th-century Christian mystics 132T
    French Servants of God 28T
    Victims of Islamic terrorism 35T
  • 10.
    Overview: Gabrielle Bossis (1874–1950) was a French Catholic laywoman, actress and mystic, best known for her mystical journal published as "He and I". This book mainly describes the conversion between Jesus and ...
    Nationality: French
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    20th-century French women 31T
    20th-century Christian mystics 132T
    20th-century Christian nuns 359T
  • 11.

    Charles de Condren
    French mystic
    Charles de Condren
    Overview: Charles de Condren, Cong. Orat., a Doctor of the Sorbonne (15 December 1588 - 17 January 1641), was a French mystic of the 17th century, and is considered a leading member of the French School of Spirituality ...
    Date of birth: 15 December 1588
    Date of death: 17 January 1641
    Age: 52 (age at death)
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    17th-century French Roman Catholic priests 63T
    17th-century Christian mystics 87T
    French Oratory mystics 2T
  • 12.

    Antonin Gadal
    French mystic and historian (1877–1962)
    Antonin Gadal
    Overview: Antonin Gadal (1877–1962) was a French mystic and historian who dedicated his life to study of the Cathars in the south of France, their spirituality, beliefs and ideology.
    Date of birth: 1877
    Date of death: 1962
    Age: 84 (age at death)
    Nationality: French
    Occupation: Historian
    Gender: Male
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    19th-century Christian mystics 69T
    20th-century Christian mystics 132T
    French male writers 4,032T
  • 13.

    Jean Eudes
    French Roman Catholic priest
    Jean Eudes
    Overview: John Eudes, CIM (French: Jean Eudes; 14 November 1601 – 19 August 1680) was a French Roman Catholic priest and the founder of both the Order of Our Lady of Charity in 1641 and Congregation of Jesus and ...
    Date of birth: 14 November 1601
    Date of death: 19 August 1680
    Age: 78 (age at death)
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    17th-century French Roman Catholic priests 63T
    Eudists 1T
    17th-century Christian mystics 87T
  • 14.

    Jacques Fesch
    French criminal who convicted to death later reconciled to the Catholic faith and Servant of God
    Overview: Jacques Fesch (April 6, 1930, Saint-Germain-en-Laye – October 1, 1957, La Santé Prison, Paris) was the murderer of a French police officer, who became such a devout Roman Catholic while in prison awaiting ...
    Date of birth: 6 April 1930
    Date of death: 1 October 1957
    Age: 27 (age at death)
    Nationality: French
    Occupation: Writer
    Gender: Male
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    French male non-fiction writers 2,066T
    20th-century Christian mystics 132T
    20th-century French male writers 1,582T
  • 15.

    Pierre de Bérulle
    French Catholic priest and cardinal
    Pierre de Bérulle
    Overview: Pierre de Bérulle (4 February 1575 – 2 October 1629) was a French Catholic priest, cardinal and statesman, one of the most important mystics of the 17th century in France. He was the founder of the French ...
    Date of birth: 1575
    Date of death: 1629
    Age: 53 (age at death)
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    17th-century French cardinals 21T
    Roman Catholic priests in France 9T
    Cardinals created by Pope Urban VIII 62T
  • 16.
    John of St. Samson
    Overview: John of St. Samson (1571–1636), also known as Jean du Moulin or Jean de Saint-Samson, was a French Carmelite friar and mystic of the Catholic Church. He is known as the soul of the Touraine Reform of ...
    Date of birth: 1571
    Date of death: 1636
    Age: 64 (age at death)
    Nationality: French
    Occupation: Writer
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