Word: urbaine
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Rash Priest. Father Urbain Grandier, the center of the disturbance, looked for all the world like "a fleshier, not unamiable and only slightly less intelligent Mephistopheles in clerical fancy dress." Since his arrival at Loudun in 1617, he had fully exploited his devilish good looks. He not only made himself free with scullery trulls and upstairs maids; he also abused the confessional and other sacred precincts, it was said, with docile ladies of the parish. He had even taken a rich "wife," though his enemies had difficulty in proving it, because Grandier himself had served as both priest and bridegroom...
...development now includes the original farmhouse, 30 cows (Father Urbain owns 15), a shrine on every farm. Later there will be a communal barn for cows which will graze on a communal pasture. But Father Urbain does not consider that collectivism: "It's the very opposite of that. It will make the people individualists, keep them from having to sit in the city and push buttons...
When houses are built on Queen's Acres, Father Urbain plans a school for the children. He will welcome Protestant farmers at Queen's Acres, will not insist that their children attend his school. "But," he adds, "we won't mind making converts...
...Father Urbain bought 140 acres for $10,000. He subdivided the land into
...baby farms," is now selling them to his parishioners at $250 a half acre. Profits will go toward paving streets, installing a water and sewer system. Father Urbain's purchasers may not subdivide their plots, must sign a pledge to build a house...