The Sacred Hill

The Sacred Hill (French: La colline inspirée) is a 1913 novel by the French writer Maurice Barrès. It tells the story of three monks who turn the hill colline de Saxon-Sion in Lorraine into a place of worship, which then develops into a cult inspired by the heretic Eugène Vintras. It was translated into English with a foreword by Malcolm Cowley in 1929.

The Sacred Hill

First edition title page
Author	Maurice Barrès
Original title	La Colline inspirée
Translator	Malcolm Cowley
Language	French
Publisher	Émile-Paul Frères
Publication date	1913
Publication place	France
Published in English	1929
Pages	428

In 1950 Le Figaro named the book as one of the winners of the "Grand Prix des meilleurs romans du demi-siècle", a prestigious literary competition to find the twelve best French novels of the first half of the twentieth century.^[1]