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When the Reds Lose. Founder of Odette's and Andree's order is a jolly, beet-cheeked priest named Marcel Roussel, 45. Son of a prosperous village baker in the Jura mountains, a parish priest in Besangon when World War II broke out, Abbe Roussel served in the French artillery, then left his parish at war's end to reach out to the Godless poor in France...
Inspired by such groups as the Peasant Brothers and the Little Sisters and Little Brothers of Abbe Foucauld, Abbe Roussel got church permission in 1947 to found his Institut Seculaire de Travail leuses. Since then, he has lived in the buckle of Paris' red belt-the dingy factory suburb named for St. Denis, when only 2,000 of 25,000 people ever go to church. Here, in a tiny, fourth-floor walk up with a cold-water tap in the back court and one toilet to 16 families, he directs the work of his 25 missionar> women...
...Roussel: Trio, Op. 40 (Doriot Anthony Dwyer, flute; Joseph de Pasquale, viola; Samuel Mayes, cello; Boston). Fine first-desk players of the Boston Symphony combine tones to wax some of the most cheerful chamber music of the century...
Things went reasonably well for a while, but soon Roussel discovered that Byzan tine Empire politics were veined with in trigue and deceit. When Emperor Ro-manus Diogenes and his huge force of 60,000 men were beaten by treachery at Manzikert in 1071, confusion became the real ruler of the Empire. Emperors were made and unmade overnight, and an honest free-lance soldier scarcely knew his employer from one battle to the next. Roussel tried desperately to keep on the winning side, and for a time it seemed that his chance for a personal domain might come. But when...
...only would Roussel be paid in gold for an honest day's slaughter. There was always the chance that he could hack away a chunk of territory from the Turk and rule it himself under the Emperor. Roussel's wife Matilda, a forceful battle-ax from Lombardy, endorsed the idea. Like most mothers, she was thinking of her children's future and her own too, and there was not much future with a hus band who fought...