While the late Abbé Pierre can no longer be prosecuted, the Paris prosecutor’s office could still investigate potential accomplices or failures to report abuse and assault at the time. Abbé Pierre, ...

Abbé Pierre: his first helpers included a reform school runaway, a slightly deranged policeman and a boxer The Abbé Pierre, who died yesterday aged 94, was regarded almost as a saint in France on ...

Henri-Antoine Grouès (Abbé Pierre), priest and charity worker: born Lyons, France 5 August 1912; entered Capuchin Order 1931 as Brother Philippe; ordained priest 1938; parliamentary deputy 1945-51; ...

Whether it was supporting the students and staff of the Parchment schools, which his son attended, or helping a struggling young comedian, William C. Abbe made it his business to help others. "He was ...

There was a dramatic prelude to Christmas 1994 in Paris. On Sunday December 18, a crowd of more than a hundred homeless people invaded a large empty office building at 7 rue du Dragon, a fashionable ...