Word: michel
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Notre Dame Cathedral on Easter morning, just as Archbishop Maurice Feltin was chanting the Credo, Michel Mourre, a 22-year-old former student for holy orders, dressed in a rented Dominican monk's robe, climbed into the pulpit, grabbed the microphone and roared: "God is dead! I accuse the Catholic Church of infecting the world with a funeral spirit." Some of the congregation of 10,000 rushed forward to drag Mourre from the pulpit. Three of his friends, standing at its foot, threw firecrackers in the faces of the infuriated faithful. Gendarmes arrested Mourre and his three friends...
White Tie & Tails. That was Ivan Jadan's big break. In the audience was Michel Kachouk, manager of such illustrious Russian musicians as Feodor Chaliapin and Serge Koussevitzky. Jadan's family found a home with friends in New Orleans and Impresario Kachouk set out to see what he could do to start Jadan on a new-career...
...village of St. Michel-de-1'Atalaye, high on Haiti's Plateau Central, it was a day of both sadness and fun. The older folk, according to the Haitian custom, alternately wept & wailed, feasted, played cards. For the younger ones there were endless ghost stories and riddles. It was the day of 26-year-old Alina Souf-frant's funeral...
Next day her family and friends followed her coffin to St. Michel's Roman Catholic Church. Suddenly, the pallbearers began to exchange uneasy glances; the weight of the coffin was shifting for all the world as though someone was moving inside it. They broke into a terrified trot. Inside the church, they set the coffin in the aisle and opened it. They found Alina lying there with her eyes open-dazed but unmistakably alive...
...walking dead. Said Alina: "When I died, I found myself in a place where a lot of people were talking and taking their pleasure, and everything was nice and clean. I wanted to go in, but they wouldn't let me. So I came back to St. Michel...