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Suddenly Paris was aware that a man was organizing a Resistance against the cold. Bearded and gaunt, wearing a black cape with the flair of an actor, a 41-year-old priest called Abbé Pierre was rocketing through the city in a tiny green Renault, collecting old clothes, setting up distribution points, opening emergency shelters. From radios and the stages of theaters, on street corners and in churches, the soft voice of Abbé Pierre appealed: "My friends, help...
...response was strong. The Ministry of Health doled out 4,000,000 francs. From another ministry came blankets. The army contributed trucks to move supplies, hospitals established dormitories, and municipal buildings were turned into soup kitchens and sleeping halls. The Metro turned over three unused subway stations to Abbé Pierre for shelters against the cold...
...voice of Abbé Pierre went on: "Empty your attics, Parisians. There may be venerable things in them, but they're less venerable than the lives of babies." As the Abbé strode through a tent shelter late last week, a woman in a chic Persian lamb coat handed him $210 collected from friends. "Monsieur 1'Abbé," she cried. "You have awakened...
...Soft Touch. That is what Abbé Pierre has been trying to do for a long time. The fifth of eight children of a wealthy Lyons silk manufacturer, Henri Antoine Grouès at 18 signed his inheritance over to charity and entered a Capuchin monastery. Eight years later tuberculosis forced him to give up the rigors of monastic life, and he was assigned as a secular priest to the diocese of Grenoble...
...Niort (pop. 29,068) in southwestern France, Caroline Chérie ran into the Abbé Francis Ferrier. Rallying parents' associations, parochial-school pupils, and politicians, the abbe demanded that Mayor Felix Lelant prevent the film from being shown. The mayor thought hard, decided that he might prohibit the film on the grounds that it was a "provocation to riot," and got the municipal council so to rule. That night pro-Carolinians chalked the walls of Niort with the slogan: "Liberate Caroline." The anti-Carolinians retaliated with: "Caroline go Home...