of faith and religion as well as hypocrisy. Pierre Helyot – Franciscan history writer Hergé – nom de plume of the writer and illustrator of Tintin, one of the most popular European comics of the 20th century, answer to Le Petit Vingtième request for a Catholic reporter that fought evil around the world Victor Hugo – French novelist and poet Joris-Karl Huysmans – originally a decadent novelist, his later novels, En Route (1895), La Cathédrale (1898) and L'Oblat (1903), trace his conversion to Roman Catholicism Max Jacob Francis Jammes late-19th- and early-20th-century poet Pierre de Jarric – French missionary and author Marcel Jouhandeau L–Z Brother Lawrence – 17th-century Carmelite lay brother; known for the spiritual classic "The Practice of the Presence of God" Frédéric Le Play Henri de Lubac – priest (later cardinal) and leading theologian Joseph de Maistre – late-18th- and early-19th-century writer and philosopher from Savoy, one of the most influential intellectual opponents of the French Revolution and a firm defender of the authority of the Papacy Joseph Malègue novelist Gabriel Marcel – convert; philosopher and playwright Jacques Maritain – convert; Catholic philosophical writer Henri Massis François Mauriac – devout Catholic novelist; a strong influence on Graham Greene, whose themes are sin and redemption; recipient of the 1952 Nobel Prize in Literature Saint Louis de Montfort – priest; wrote The True Devotion to Mary; Catholic saint Malika Oufkir – Moroccan writer imprisoned with her mother and siblings in a secret Saharan prison for 15 years; these years are recounted in her autobiography, La Prisonniere, later translated into English as Stolen Lives: Twenty Years in a Desert Jail Blaise Pascal – polymath (physicist, mathematician and philosopher); made significant contributions to various fields including probability and mathematics; wrote Pensées Charles Péguy – poet; long poems include "Mysteres de Charité de Jeanne d'Arc" ("Mysteries of the Charity of Joan of Arc") and "Le mystère des saints innocents" ("The Mystery of the Holy Innocents") Charles Perrault – wrote epic Christian poetry before establishing the fairy tale literary genre with Tales of Mother Goose Jean Raspail – 20th-century French novelist; known for Camp of the Saints Pierre Reverdy – 20th-century French poet Arthur Rimbaud – 19th-century poet and confessional writing pioneer; author of A Season in Hell; self-professed "voyant", or seer Saint Therese of Lisieux – 19th-century Carmelite nun and now a Doctor of the Church; autobiography, L'histoire d'un âme (The Story of