No more excuses for Abbé Pierre!

No more excuses for Abbé Pierre!
No more excuses for Abbé Pierre!

NA long time ago, at his peak in the media, he was nicknamed “the holy pain in the ass” by the daily newspaper Release. To praise his striking force in fighting the powerful. The “holy pain in the ass” is unbolted from his pedestal. Seventeen years after his death, we discover the diabolical face of the one who had been erected during his lifetime as an icon, the great resistance fighter, the builder of Emmaüs, the man of the appeal of the winter of 54, the favorite personality of the French that a recent film still glorified, drawing crowds of spectators to the theaters. The one who embodied in for more than half a century, in the post-war reconstruction, the Trente Glorieuses and the decades of economic and social crisis, until his death in 2007, the fight against poverty tumbles into the limbo of memory…


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