Léon Bloy (1846-1917), pamphleteer and romantic, was born in Périgueux on July 11, 1846. His father was a Voltairian Freemason and his mother a devout Catholic. In 1867 he moved to Paris. His works include Le Désespéré (1886), Le Salut par les juifs (1892), Histoires désobligeantes (1894). In this same editorial we have already presented his Exegesis of common places (1902 and 1913; Cliff, 2007) and Diaries (Cliff, 2007).