Word: gerlier
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Forty-eight hours after the court's decision. Mile. Germaine Ribiere, representing Pierre Cardinal Gerlier, Archbishop of Lyon, crossed into Spain on the last of several recent trips to find the boys. This time they were waiting for her in San Sebastian, in the home of the Spanish provincial governor...
Among Martine's previewers was a church group who reported to Pierre Cardinal Gerlier, archbishop of Lyon. Wrote the cardinal in his religious weekly: "The lowly and licentious film entitled Un Caprice de Caroline Chérie . . . is a scandalous display of vice." On church doors throughout France Caroline Chérie got a five rating on the Index of forbidden films: to be seen neither by adults nor children. Said Martine: "I'm flabbergasted! And what do they think about Mary Magdalene?" Author Cecil Saint-Laurent accused the church of yielding to Anglo-Saxon standards of prudery...