Charles Louis-Camille Saroléa

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DLitt (24 October 1870 in

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– 11 March 1953 in

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) was a Belgian

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and author.

Life

Saroléa was born in

on 24 October 1870 the son of Dr Jean Pierre Sarolea MD. He was educated at Lycee Athenee at

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. He then studied at the

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. He moved to Edinburgh in 1894 as Head of French at the

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(as Dr Sarolea). He initially lived in a flat at 74 Bruntsfield Place. In 1903 he was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh. His proposers were George Chrystal,

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, Sir Francis Grant Ogilvie and James Gordon MacGregor. He was also a member of the Scottish Arts Club. In 1910, he moved to 21

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on Calton Hill. He was an avid book collector, and his library grew to such proportions that he took an adjoining property on the terrace to accommodate it. Saroléa wrote on Russia and edited a library of French authors for the publisher

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. From 1912 to 1917 he edited '' Everyman'', a weekly literary magazine favourable to the doctrine of

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. In 1915, he was sent by the Belgian government to the United States to support the veracity of atrocity stories in circulation about the German occupation of Belgium. The mission was not a success, in that Sarolea publicly attacked the neutrality that the US was observing at the time with respect to

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. Recent academic interest has been on his political views. In 1918, he was given his professorship by the University of Edinburgh which he held until retiral in 1931. Saroléa died in Edinburgh on 11 March 1953.

Family

Saroléa married twice: firstly in 1895 to Martha van Cauwenberghe, then secondly in 1905 to Julia Dorman. His niece Marie Antoinette Saroléa married the cartographer

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Artistic recognition

His portrait by

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is held by the University of Edinburgh.

Works

* ''Henrik Ibsen'' (1891) * ''Essais de philosophie et de littérature'' (1898) * ''Les belges au Congo'' (1899) * ''A Short History of the Anti-Congo Campaign'' (1905) * ''The French Revolution and the Russian Revolution'' (1906) * ''Newman's Theology'' (1908) * ''The Anglo-German Problem'' (1912) * ''Count L.N. Tolstoy. His life and work'' (1912) * ''How Belgium Saved Europe'' (1915) * ''The Curse of the Hohenzollern'' (1915) * ''The Murder of Nurse Cavell'' (1915) * ''The French Renascence'' (1916) * ''Europe's Debt to Russia'' (1916) * ''Great Russia Her Achievement and Promise'' (1916) * ''German problems and personalities'' (1917) * ''The Russian revolution and the war'' (1917) * ''The Maid of Orleans: The Story of Joan of Arc Told to American Soldiers'' (1918) * ''Europe and the League of Nations'' (1919) * ''Versailles und der Völkerbund'' (1920) * ''Letters on Polish Affairs'' (1922) * ''Impressions of Soviet Russia'' (1924) * ''Robert Louis Stevenson and France'' (1924) * ''The Policy of Sanctions and the Failure of the League of Nations'' (1936) * ''Daylight on Spain: The Answer to the Duchess of Atholl'' (1937)

Notes

References

*Samantha T. Johnson, ''Holy war in Europe: Charles Sarolea, Everyman and the First World War, 1914–17'' in ''War and the Media: Reportage and Propaganda, 1900–2003'' editors

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, David Welch *Sam Johnson,Playing the Pharisee'? Charles Sarolea, Czechoslovakia and the road to Munich, 1915–1939'', Slavonic and East European review 2004, vol. 82, no.2, pp. 292–314 *G.K. Chesteron writes about Sarolea in his Autobiography (1936), Grey Arrow edition 1959 p. 81f.

External links

*
The Political Imagination of Charles Sarolea by Peter S. Rieth, The Imaginative Conservative website, accessed 13 April 2018

Charles Saroléa at encyclopedia.farlex.com
* * {{DEFAULTSORT:Sarolea, Charles 1870 births 1953 deaths University of Liège alumni Academics of the University of Edinburgh Belgian philologists