Word: douarnenez
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Father Yvon's career as a man of God goes no further back than the War, in which he, a simple Breton from Douarnenez, began fighting as a private, finished as an infantry lieutenant scarred by eleven wounds. After the armistice he entered the Capuchin novitiate, preached to Communist fishermen on the quays of St. Malo, soon became superior of a monastery near Dinard. This tranquil office the robust, jolly Capuchin renounced for the immensely practical missionary work carried on in the French fishing fleets since 1895 by the Société des Oeuvres de Mer. Father Yvon...
Scowling and cursing, the captains of 130 big French fishing smacks put to sea at Douarnenez last week, every smack loaded to the gunwales with sardines...
...notorious Communist Mayor of Douarnenez in Finistere is dead. He was known throughout France for his bolshecratic manner of meting out Jus- tice. At his funeral, Bolsheviki paraded, waved red flags. Priests, called in by the family to officiate at the burial, declined to countenance the carrying of the flags: bitter, bad words from the Communists; hard, harsh tones from the Priests. A compromise was finally reached. The Communists retired to the end of the procession with their flags, while the Priests and nonCommunists marched ahead...
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