Word: bremond
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Bernard dogs have a record of ten centuries of heroic achievement behind them. But Dr. Jean Bremond was not thinking about records when he demanded last fortnight that all the dogs at the Great St. Bernard Hospice in Switzerland be destroyed, that the monks stop breeding them. If this were done, Dr. Bremond said he would not sue the monastery over the horrible death of his ten-year-old daughter, Marie-Anne, fatally mangled by a pack of St. Bernards as she and her father skied up to the hospice last month (TIME...
...Bremond argued that the dogs of St. Bernard no longer serve a useful purpose since traveling conditions in the mountains have improved. The monks breed them only to sell and as objects of curiosity, he claimed. He found a few sympathizers in the district who said the St. Bernard breed has degenerated, that Swiss gendarmes have been forced to kill several dogs grown vicious because the monks keep them tied up for long periods, allowing them off leashes only twice a day at most...
Meanwhile the Swiss gendarmerie completed its investigation of the dogs who killed Marie-Anne Bremond, announced last week that they were "of general good nature and not a public danger." No dogs were ordered destroyed, but three who might prove dangerous were to be sent over the border to an Italian dog farm. Later in the week, one of the monks at the St. Bernard Hospice told United Press that the monks had voluntarily destroyed these three dogs, that eight others will be kept under observation all summer in an enclosed park. Next winter the monks plan to let their...
...fine morning last week, the St. Bernard record for canine Christianity was unaccountably shattered. From Grenoble. Dr. Jean Bremond had set out on a skiing trip across the Swiss border with his three young daughters. Up & up they slid along the Great St. Bernard pass. Cru-u-unch went their skis in the granular Alpine snow as they came in sight of the home of the pious monks of St. Bernard. A deep-voiced barking broke out as the famed dogs of the monastery came leaping to greet the travelers. Shrieking with laughter and excitement, ten-year-old Marie-Anne...
...What Dr. Bremond saw then from 300 yards away had the deliberate horror of a slow-motion nightmare. The dogs closed in on the little girl. No longer could the doctor see Marie-Anne, but he could hear her shrieking. One of the dogs seemed to be worrying at a large rag doll. With their black gowns hiked up, the monks came stumbling and shouting from their quarters. When the dogs were finally hauled & called off, Marie-Anne lay limp and bleeding in the snow...
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