About Albert Peyriguère
Albert Peyriguère was a Catholic priest, hermit and ethnologist from Southern France. Following the example of Charles de Foucauld, he lived as a hermit in the Atlas mountains in Morocco. While the care for the local Berber population earned him their admiration, he became an expert on Berber languages and their culture. Peyriguère was mobilised in the first days of the First World War and assigned to the 234th infantry regiment as stretcher bearer and chaplain. In Tunesia, Peyriguère read the biography of Charles de Foucauld by René Bazin and became one of the first disciples of the hermit. In June 1926, he founded together with another Bordeaux native, Father Chatouville, a hermitage in Ghardaïa, but both fell ill and had to be repatriated.
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