Georges Goyau

[1] In 1892, Goyau joined the École Français de Rome, an institute for history, archaeology, and social sciences.

In 1893, he wrote Le Pape, les catholiques et la question sociale, a democratic interpretation of Pope Leo XIII's 1891 encyclical Rerum novarum.

As associate editor, he penned some 110 articles for the Revue des deux mondes, a monthly literary and cultural affairs magazine, publishing a lot of articles on Catholic history, for example: L’Église libre dans l’Europe libre (The free Church in the free Europe), Les Origines religieuses du Canada (The religious origins of Canada), L’Effort catholique dans la France d’aujourd’hui (The Catholic efforts in today's France), and Le Catholicisme, doctrine d’action (Catholicism, doctrine of action).

Bernard Reardon calls his five volume L'Allemagne religieuse, a detailed study of religion in German-speaking lands, Goyau's "literary achievement".

His second marriage was to the Catholic writer Juliette Heuzey, who published a book titled Dieu premier servi.