Paris 2017: Cimetière du Montparnasse: #1: Paul Bourget

'PAUL
BOURGET
2 SEPTEMBRE
1852
25 DÉCEMBRE
1935'

Paul Bourget was a Catholic convert who wrote novels, short stories, non-fiction, plays and poems. Generally considered as his best work, the novel Le Disciple (1889) is a roman à thèse in which modern science is denounced as a substitute for religion, but without any morality.