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Marcel Légaut
Marcel Légaut (27 April 1900 – 6 November 1990) was a French Christian philosopher and mathematician.
Biography.
Marcel Légaut was born in Paris, where he received his Ph.D. in Mathematics from the École Normale Supérieure in 1925. He taught in various faculties (among them Rennes and Lyon) until 1943. Under the impact of the Second World War and the rapid French defeat in 1940, Légaut acknowledged the lack of certain fundamental aspects in his life as well as in the lives of other university professors
was his tenacity and freedom of thought (other names for his responsibility). Writing as an older man, Légaut recovered his dream as a youth: to express spiritual life just as it is, in a sincere and honest way, avoiding utopian speculation.
Légaut died in Avignon.
Publications.
Marcel Légaut is the author of twenty books, sixteen of which have been published from 1970.
His main work, published in two volumes in 1970 and 1971, is "L’accomplissement humain" (Human Accomplishment)