Male : Writer. Moved to England in 1878 & naturalized in 1906. Catholic. Married Elodie Agnes Hogan in 1896

Nationality : English Place of Birth : La Celle, Saint-Cloud, France

Date of Birth : 1870 Date of Death : 1953 Age : 82

Other Work : Liberal MP for South Salford 1906-10

Education : Oratory School, Edgbaston & Balliol College, Oxford (History)

1896-1900
Verses and Sonnets (1896 Ward & Downey)
The Bad Child's Book of Beasts (1896 Alden Press) - Lord Basil Blackwood (BTB)
More Beasts (for Worse Children) (1897 Arnold) - Lord Basil Blackwood (BTB)
The Modern Traveller (1898 Arnold) - Lord Basil Blackwood (BTB)
A Moral Alphabet (1899 Arnold ) - Lord Basil Blackwood (BTB)
Danton (1899 John Nisbet)
Paris (1900 Arnold)

1901-1905
Robespierre (1901 John Nisbet)
The Path to Rome (1902 Allen)
Caliban's Guide to Letters (1903 Duckworth
The Great Inquiry (1903 Duckworth) - G K Chesterton
The Romance of Tristan and Iseult (1903 Allen) - translation
Avril (1904 Duckworth)
Emmanuel Burden (1904 Methuen)- G K Chesterton - 1st Novel
The Old Road (1904 Constable) - William Hyde

1906-1910
Hills and Seas (1906 Methuen)
An Open Letter on the Decay of Faith (1906 Burns & Oates)
Esto Perpetua : Algerian Studies & Impressions (1906 Duckworth)
Sussex (1906 A C Black)
The Historic Thames (1907 Dent) (1907 Dutton, NY) - A R Quinton
Cautionary Tales for Children (1907 Eveleigh Nash) - Lord Basil Blackwood (BTB)
The Eye Witness (1908 Eveleigh Nash)
On Nothing & Kindred Subjects (1908 Methuen)
The Catholic Church & Historical truth (1908 W Watson)
An Examination of Socialism (1908 Catholic Truth Society)
The Church and Socialism (1909 CTS)
On Everything (1909 Methuen)
Marie Antoinette (1909 Methuen)
The Pyrenees (1909 Methuen)
Verses (1910 Duckworth)
On Anything (1910 Methuen)
The Ferrer Case (1910 CTS)
Pongo and the Bull (1910 Constable)
On Something (1910 Methuen)
The Party System (1910 S Swift)
Socialism and the Servile State (1910 ILP) - a debate with Ramsey MacDonald

1911
First and Last (1911 Methuen)
The Girondin (1911)
The Old Road (1911 Constable) - William Hyde
The French Revolution (1911 Williams & Norgate) (1915 Century, NY)
More Peers (1911 Stephen Swift) -Lord Basil Blackwood (BTB)
The Battle of Blenheim (1911 Stephen Swift)
Malplaquet (1911 S Swift)

1912
Waterloo (1912 S Swift)
Turcoinq (1912 S Swift)
Warfare in England (1912 Williams & Norgate)
Crecy (1912 S Swift)
This and That (1912 Methuen)
The Servile State (1912 Foulis)
The Green Overcoat (1912) - G K Chesterton
The River of London (1912 T N Foulis) - John Muirhead
The Four Men : A Farrago (1912 Nelson)

1913-1915
The Stane Street : A Monograph (1913 Constable)
Poitiers (1913 S Swift)
Anti-Catholic History (1914 CTS)
The Book of the Bayeaux Tapestry (1914 Chatto & Windus)
History of England (Vol 11) (1915 Catholic Publication Society of America)
Land and Water Map of the War (1915 Land & Water)
A General Sketch of the European War : The First Phase (1915 Nelson)
The Two Maps of Europe (1915 Arthur Pearson)

1916-1920
A General Sketch of the European War : Second Phase (1916 Nelson)
The Second Year of the War (1916 Land & Water)
The Last Days of the French Monarchy (1916 Chapman & Hall)
The Free Press (1918 Allen & Unwin)
Religion and Civil Liberty (1918 CTS)
(Trans) The Principles of War by Foch (1919 Chapman & Hall)
(Trans) Precepts and Judgements by Foch (1919 C & H)
The House of Commons and the Monarchy (1920 A & U)
The Catholic Church & The Purchase of Private Property (1920 CTS)

1921-1925
The Jews (1922 Constable)
The Mercy of Allah (1922 Chatto & Windus)
Sonnets and Verse (1923 Duckworth)
On (1923 Methuen)
The Road (1923 for Reinforced Concrete Engineering Co by Charles Hobson, Manchester)
The Contrast (1923 Arrowsmith)
The Campaign of 1812 (1924 Nelson)
Economics for Helen (1924 Arrowsmith)
The Political Effort (1924 True Temperance Assoc)
History of England : Vol 1 (1925 Methuen)
Miniatures of French History (1925 Nelson)
The Cruise of the Nona (1925 Constable)

1926-1928
Selected Essays (1926 Harrap)
The Highway and Its Vehicles (1926 The Studio)
Short Talks with the Dead (1926 Cayme Press)
Mrs Markham's New History of England (1926 Cayme Press, London) - frontis Hester Sainsbury
[This parodied the original book issued in 1823]
A Companion to Mr Wells' Outline of History (1926 Sheed & Ward)
Mr Belloc Still Objects (1927 S & W)
The Haunted House (1927 Arrowsmith) - G K Chesterton
The Catholic Church and History (1927 Burns, Oates & Washbourne)
History of England : Vol 2 (1927 Methuen)
Oliver Cromwell (1927 Benn's Sixpenny Library, No 252)
History of England : Vol 3 (1928 Methuen)
James II (1928 Faber & Gwyer)
How the Reformation Happened (1928 Cape)
Many Cities (1928 Constable)
Belinda (1928 Constable)
The Chanty of the Nona (1928 Faber Ariel Poems)

1929-1930
Joan of Arc (1929 Cassell)
Shadowed ! (1929 Harper) - re-title of UK "But Soft - We Are Observed"
The Missing Masterpiece (1929 Arrowsmith) - G K Chesterton
Survivals and New Arrivals (1929 S & W)
Richelieu (1929 Lippincott) (1930 Benn)
Wolsey (1930 Lippincott) (1930 Cassell)
The Man Who Made Gold (1930 Arrowsmith) - G K Chesterton
New Cautionary Tales (1930 Duckworth) - Nicholas Bentley
New Cautionary Tales (1930 Duckworth) (1930 Harper) - Nicholas Bentley. Signed Ltd Ed 110

1931-1935
In Praise of Wine - A Heroic Poem (1931 Peter Davies)
History of England : Vol 4 (1931 Methuen)
Cranmer (1931 Cassell)
The Tactics and Strategy of the Great Duke of Marlborough (1931 Arrowsmith)
Six British Battles (1931 Arrowsmith)
Napoleon (1932 Cassell)
The Postmaster General (1932 Arrowsmith) - G K Chesterton
Ladies and Gentlemen (1932 Duckworth)
William the Conquerer (1933 Peter Davies)
Beckett (1933 Catholic Truth Society)
Charles I (1933 Cassell)
Cromwell (1934 Cassell)
A Shorter History of England (1934 Harrap)
Milton (1935 Cassell)

1936-1940
The Battle Ground (1936 Cassell)
Characters of the Reformation (1936 Sheed & Ward)
The Crusade (1937 Cassell)
The Crisis of Our Civilization (1937 Cassell)
The Great Heresies (1938 Sheed & Ward)
Monarchy : A Study of Louis XIV (1938 Cassell)
The Case for Dr Coulton (1938 S & W)
Return to the Baltic (1938 Constable)
On Sailing the Sea (1939 Methuen)
Cautionary Verses : The Collected Humorous Verse of Hilaire Belloc (1939 Duckworth)
The Last Rally (1940 Cassell)
The Catholic Church and the War (1940 Burns & Oates)
On the Place of Gilbert Chesterton in English Letters (1940 Sheed & Ward)

AFTER 1941
Elizabethan Commentary (1942 Cassell)
Places (1942 Cassell)
The Verse .. (1954 Nonesuch Press) - 1650
Advice on Wine, Food & Other Matters (1960 London)
The Bad Child's Pop-Up Book of Beasts (1987 Methuen) - Wallace Tripp

READING
Patrick Cahill : The English First editions of Hillaire Belloc (1953 The Compiler, London)
Renee Haynes : Hilaire Belloc (1953)
Frederick Wilhelmsen : Hilaire Belloc - No Alienated Man (1954)
J B Morton : Hilaire Belloc - A Memoir (1955)
Marie Belloc Lowndes : The Young Belloc (1956)
E & R Jebb : Testimony to Hilaire Belloc (1956)
Robert Speaight : The Life of Hilaire Belloc (1957)
A N Wilson : Hilaire Belloc (1984 Hamish Hamilton £12.95) (1984 Atheneum)
Joseph Pearce : Old Thunder - A Life of Hilaire Belloc (2002 Harper Collins £20)