His name was derived from two other fictional detectives of the time: Marie Belloc Lowndes ' Hercule Popeau and Frank Howel Evans ' Monsieur Poirot, a retired Belgian police officer living in London.

A prominent critic was George Orwell, who frequently referred to him in his essays and diaries as " A Catholic Apologist " and accused him of being " silly-clever ", in line with his criticisms of G. K. Chesterton, Hilaire Belloc, Ronald Knox and Wyndham-Lewis.

In the United States in the 1930s, distributism was treated in numerous essays by Chesterton, Belloc and others in The American Review, published and edited by Seward Collins.

Strongly entrenched in an organic but very English Catholicism, advocating culturally traditionalist and agrarian values, directly challenging the precepts of Whig history — Belloc was nonetheless an MP for the Liberal Party and Chesterton once stated " As much as I ever did, more than I ever did, I believe in Liberalism.

This rejection of this new program was due to the direct influence of the ideas of Hilaire Belloc over American distributists.

The Mondragon Corporation based out of the Basque Country in the region of Spain and France, was founded by a Catholic priest, Father José María Arizmendiarrieta, who seems to have been influenced by the same Catholic social and economic teachings that inspired Belloc, Chesterton, McNabb and the other founders of distributism.

Soon after the publication of his book, Huxley wrote to Harold Raymond at Chatto and Windus that he thought it strange that when Hilaire Belloc and G. K. Chesterton wrote the praises of alcohol they were still considered good Christians, while anyone who suggested other routes to self-transcendence was accused of being a drug addict and perverter of mankind.

Historian Hillaire Belloc contends that Cecil was the de facto ruler of England during his tenure as Secretary ; pointing out that in instances where his and Elizabeth's wills diverged, it was Cecil's will that was imposed.

She was also affected when her friendship with Hillaire Belloc, who was Catholic, began to grow cold because of his disdain for the rich and her efforts to convert his daughters to Christian Science.

At the time of his deployment to Europe during World War I ( 1914 – 1918 ), Kilmer was considered the leading American Roman Catholic poet and lecturer of his generation, whom critics often compared to British contemporaries G. K. Chesterton ( 1874 – 1936 ) and Hilaire Belloc ( 1870 – 1953 ).

Hilaire Belloc was a great admirer of Rabelais.

Her last one, A Fool In Her Folly ( 1920 ), was only printed posthumously with an introduction by her long-time friend and fellow writer Marie Belloc Lowndes.

She became a member of the Langham Place Group, which set out to improve conditions for women, and was friends with feminists Bessie Rayner Parkes ( later Bessie Rayner Belloc ) and Barbara Leigh Smith, later Barbara Bodichon.

" Procter herself expressed little ambition about her work: her friend Bessie Raynor Belloc thought that Procter was pained that her reputation as a poet had outstripped her father's, and quoted Procter as saying that " Papa is a poet.

As it was put by Hilaire Belloc, in the words of the figure " Blood " in his poem " The Modern Traveller ":

" This book, which is based on Collins ' actual papers and letters ( as well as his FBI file ), argues that Collins was in fact a Distributist, i. e., a follower of G. K. Chesterton and Hilaire Belloc, who inexplicably called Agrarianism " fascism.

* " Henry King, Who chewed bits of string and was early cut off in dreadful agonies ", poem by Hilaire Belloc

From 1936 to 1967 the editor was Douglas Woodruff, formerly of The Times, a historian and reputed wit whose hero was Hilaire Belloc.

* In 1926 Hilaire Belloc wrote " A Companion to Mr. Wells ’ s " Outline of History ", a devout Roman Catholic, Belloc was deeply offended by Wells ’ treatment of Christianity in The Outline.

He was an adherent of the distributism movement, described as a " third way ", in opposition to both socialism and capitalism ; and he was influenced by the work of G. K. Chesterton and Hilaire Belloc.

She may have been influenced by them, or have come to similar conclusions on her own ; as an Anglican, the reasonings she gave are rooted in the theologies of Creation and Incarnation, and thus are slightly different from the Catholic Chesterton and Belloc.

However, within this milieu Heseltine accomplished much work, including settings from the Jacobean dramatist John Webster and the modern poet Hilaire Belloc, and the Capriol Suite in versions for string and full orchestra.

He noted the similarities between his own economic views and the teaching of papal encyclicals on socio-economic issues, from Leo XIII's " Rerum Novarum " to Pope John XXIII's " Mater et Magistra ", as well as with the distributism supported by the Catholic thinkers G. K. Chesterton, Hilaire Belloc and Vincent McNabb.

Most of these ideas about German-Jewish conspiracies originated from right-wing figures such as Arnold White, Hilaire Belloc, and Leo Maxse, the latter using his publication the National Review to spread them.

Fuelled by plenty of gin and tonic to cover her shyness, Manning could be a witty participant in London's literary scene ; as in childhood she was given to making boastful inventions, such as claiming a family relationship to Marie Belloc Lowndes and that she had received a marriage proposal from Anthony Burgess the morning after his wife's death.

Most other contributors from the Division used pseudonyms: some now obscure ; some intended to satirize contemporary newspaper pundits such as Beach Thomas ( Daily Mail ) and Hilaire Belloc ; and some ironic, such as P. B. I.

As Marx argued ( see also Hilaire Belloc ), capitalism also differs from other market economies that feature private ownership through the concentration of the means of production in the hands of a few.

* Letters from Hilaire Belloc ( 1958 ) editor

Abbaye de Belloc is a French, traditional farmhouse, semi-hard cheese from the Pays Basque region, made from unpasteurized sheep milk, with a fat content of 60 %.

The cheese was first made by the Benedictine monks of the Abbaye de Notre-Dame de Belloc, at the commune of Belloc in the Ariège department of southwestern France, from milk from the local flocks of sheep.

Particularly influential in the development of distributist theory were Catholic authors G. K. Chesterton and Hilaire Belloc, two of distributism's earliest and strongest proponents.

* The Catholic Church and Current Literature ( 1930 ) George N. Shuster, editor Hilaire Belloc ( and other books of the Calvert Series )

He was a Roman Catholic convert, and biographer of Hilaire Belloc and Eric Gill.

Benson's ideas illuminate English Catholic thought during the pontificate of Pope Pius X, sharing similar views as Catholic authors, G. K. Chesterton and Hilaire Belloc.

Robert Speaight, a biographer of Hilaire Belloc, noted that Cardinal Manning's involvement in the Dock Strike made a major impression on Belloc, 19 years old at the time, who was to become a major speaker for the Catholic Church during the early twentieth century.

Hilaire Belloc was probably the best known of the early members of the Newman ; on 11 June 1893, when he was still an undergratuate at Balliol, he spoke on ‘ The Church and the Republic ’.

Both Belloc and Chesterton opposed British imperialism in general, as well as specifically opposing the Second Boer War, but supported British involvement in World War I.

At the turn of the century, G. K. Chesterton and Hillaire Belloc drew together the disparate experiences of the various cooperatives and friendly societies in Northern England, Ireland and Northern Europe into a coherent political ideology which specifically advocated widespread private ownership of housing and control of industry through owner-operated small businesses and worker-controlled cooperatives.

According to Belloc, the distributive state ( the state which has implemented distributism ) contains " an agglomeration of families of varying wealth, but by far the greater number of owners of the means of production.

* An Essay on The Restoration of Property by Hilaire Belloc.

* Do We Agree, a debate between G. B. Shaw and G. K. Chesterton with Hilaire Belloc as chairman ( 1928 )

* 1870 – Hilaire Belloc, English writer ( d. 1953 )