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Daniel-Rops
Henri Daniel-Rops (Épinal, 19 January 1901 – Aix-les-Bains, 27 July 1965) was a French Roman Catholic writer and historian whose real name was Henri Petiot.
Biography.
Daniel-Rops was the son of a military officer. He was a student at the Faculties of Law and Literature in Grenoble, receiving his Agrégation in History in 1922 at the age of 21, the youngest in France. He was a professor of history in Chambéry, then in Amiens and
The Federation, and the French Federalist Movement.
From 1957 to 1963 he was one of the fifty governors of the European Foundation of Culture founded by Denis de Rougemont. In 1955, he was elected to the Académie française.
Selected works.
Daniel Rops has written novels and works of religious history:
- "Notre Inquiétude" (1926)
- "L'âme obscure" (1929). Novel
- "Mort, où est ta victoire ?" ("Death, Where Is Thy Victory?