Maurice BlondelMaurice Blondel (1861-1949) was born in Dijon, France and educated at the École Normale Supérieure. Blondel's defended his thesis, L'action in 1893 at the Sorbonne. Blondel at first was refused a university position on the grounds of having taken an mproperly religious position in his philosophy, but finally received a professorship in Aix in 1897. Read More Read Less