Word: champagnat
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Dates: during 1953-1953
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...Marc Champagnat, a stout and fastidious retired railroad worker, was the Dr. Johnson of the town of Angoulême A divorcé and a gourmet, Marc and his friends-the undertaker, the fishmonger, the mayor, the lawyer's clerk and the school principal-met so regularly in the tavern called Le Practic that their group became known as Champagnat's Club. Over peppery steak and cognac, Marc would talk endlessly of his philosophies, his past amours, his hobbies-fishing and cooking-and his adventures in the Cameroons. Even the Irish setter Vo-Vo learned to follow...
...each year. I shall kill myself at the end of September 1953. On Oct. 1, I shall be buried." Marc's friends slapped him on the back and urged him to have another drink. "You'll forget it all by tomorrow," they said. But Marc Champagnat did not forget...
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