Word: puy
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...philosophical syntheses and her belligerent leftism, labelled her the "Red Virgin." When she received her teaching certificate, he arranged to have the Education ministry refuse her a post in the industrial, union-base cities she had requested, and to have her sent instead to a small town called Le Puy in central France. (This professor is rumored to have said, "we'll send her...as far away as possible so that we shall never hear of her again...
...Puy Simone nevertheless hurried to involve herself in the struggle for trade union unification, participating in demonstrations of the unemployed in nearby St. Etienne. There she gained a reputation in the local national press as a Moscow agent. (Weil never joined the Communist or any other party, and Petrement only hints that she may have wanted to at one time. In any case, what began as a vigorous skepticism about the value of political reforms and party discipline later grew into a repudiation of any faith in political goals, either revolutionary or reformist...
...contemporary resonances, of course. Does anyone still believe that the hippies and gurus and Woodstocks of the '60s were anything new or unusual? Consider the medieval Pied Piper from Bourges, who called himself Christ and gathered an ecstatic following that then presented itself to the Bishop of Le Puy, its members "stark naked, leaping and somersaulting." The response was summary: the leader was "killed on the spot...