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...Colmar, in Alsace-Lorraine, a beady-eyed French lawyer stuck out his right forefinger, wagging it before the broad, shiny nose of an Alsatian priest, the Abbe Haegy. "Ha!" snorted the lawyer, "look me in the eye! Look into the eyes of a Frenchman, M. l'Abbé, and tell me if you will not shout with me 'VIVE LA FRANCE...
...crones and lasses who sell magazines from Parisian kiosks on the grand boulevards were elated last week when a lean stalwart priest, the Abbé Bethlehem, 57, was finally arrested after he had seized from the kiosks and torn up at least 300 copies of those magazines in which the feminine thigh is perennially displayed in frilly netherthings like the paper lace on a lamb chop. Heedless that he had taken coppers from the purses and bread from the mouths of kiosk women too weak to resist him, the strapping Abbé cried: "If I saw poison being offered...
...where religious knick-knacks were on sale, seized and dashed upon the ground some two dozen cheap plaster figurines of the Blessed Virgin. Arrested, he explained: "In revenge for 30 copies of La Vie Parisienne and nine of Le Sourire seized from my mother and torn up by the Abbé Bethlehem, I smashed a few of those idolatrous images sold by the accomplices of priesthood. They seem to me fully as poisonous to the soul as any magazine my mother ever sold. My father was an agnostic. I am an atheist. I defy the Abbé Bethlehem - coward, despoiler...
Soon the pious Abbé and the impetuous atheist felt the cold, im partial rigor of the Code Napoleon. Each was severely reprimanded, each was fined eleven francs...
Butterflies prosper, indeed, live longer, when their heads have been cut off. Professeur Bouvier based his report on research made by Abbé Cambouet, missionary to Madagascar, who experimented there on 80 big, bloom-patterned flutterers...