Word: abbe
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Curious spectators crowded into a courtroom at Melun, last week, as two men and ten women, all members of the Sadistic Bordeaux cult of Notre Dame des Pleurs (Our Lady of Tears) were arraigned on a charge of having stripped and flogged the Abbé des Noyers at Bombon (TIME...
...Abbé appeared in court, although still suffering from the strokes which had been administered to him with knotted rope ends by his Bordeaux assailants. One by one they were called to the stand and stoutly continued to maintain that they had flogged the Abbé "because he has menaced the life of our Sainted Mother Marie," i. e., Marie Mesmin, a former Bordeaux concierge, who has headed the cult of Notre Dame des Pleurs for 21 years, and presided at most of its Sadistic rites...
...Significance. "What pleasure," asked "the last of the French giants," of his secretary, "can you find in picking up the careless words that trickle down my old beard?" The secretary knew what Florianet and the Abbé Ledieu (French Boswells) had done for their masters, Voltaire and Bossuet. The formal biographers, already marshaling facts, will come here to make their pictures mobile...
...A.S.W. Rosenbach, famed U.S. bookseller, purchased a fine collection of Napoleonic relics, once the property of the Abb Ange Paul Vignali, one of the Corsican priests sent to minister to the ex-Emperor on the isle of St. Helena...
...priest advanced-"I mock religion," cried the man. "I don't want the aid of priests. If I am going to hell I will know it soon. ... But you, Monsieur l'Abbé-you're a good sort-I like you." They embraced...