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The Sacred Hill

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The Sacred Hill
First edition title page
AuthorMaurice Barrès
Original titleLa Colline inspirée
TranslatorMalcolm Cowley
LanguageFrench
PublisherÉmile-Paul Frères
Publication date
1913
Publication placeFrance
Published in English
1929
Pages428

The Sacred Hill (French: La colline inspirée) is a 1913 novel by the French writer Maurice Barrès. It tells the story of three monks who turn the hill colline de Saxon-Sion in Lorraine into a place of worship, which then develops into a cult inspired by the heretic Eugène Vintras [fr]. It was translated into English with a foreword by Malcolm Cowley in 1929.

In 1950 Le Figaro named the book as one of the winners of the "Grand Prix des meilleurs romans du demi-siècle", a prestigious literary competition to find the twelve best French novels of the first half of the twentieth century.[1]

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  1. ^ L'actualité littéraire intellectuelle et artistique (in French), Nr 60-63, éditions Odile Pathé, 1950, p. 138.
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