Paul Claudel

Paul Claudel was born on 6 August 1868 in Villeneuve-sur-Fère, in the Aisne. At eighteen, on Christmas night 1886, at Notre-Dame de Paris, he experienced a conversion that made him a fervent Catholic for the rest of his life. He entered the diplomatic service in 1893 and was consul in China from 1895 to 1909, ambassador to Japan in the 1920s, then represented France in the United States from 1928 to 1933, and left the service in 1936. Elected to the Académie française on 4 April 1946, he died on 23 February 1955.

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