Abstract
Corresponding to the anti-modern tendencies of his temperament and his intellectual, political, moral and aesthetic queries, the discovery of the work Léon Bloy (1846-1917) by Léopold Levaux (1892-1956), in 1913, had the effect of a true revelation on him, and soon led, not without dithering, to his conversion to Catholicism. Moving from admiration for books to a desire to meet, Levaux and his wife will come to Paris in June 1914 to get to know the Master. In 1915, running away from the Belgian territory invaded by the Germans, the young couple will live with the Bloy family for two and a half months (from mid-May to the beginning of August). The initial idyll will suffer the wear and tear of time, and several frictions would eventually create a distance which, however, will never come to a separation. We find here a report of the contrasting relationships that bind Léon Bloy and his Belgian disciple.
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