priests threw off their soutanes to become police andfiremen, moving men and grave diggers. One of them,de Bonnieres, of noble birth, went every morning, brav-ing the bullets which whistled about his ears, into thesuburbs begging the soldiers for the scraps, left overfrom their meals, to distribute… … THE CHATEAU OF GERBEVILLER Thus, before the enemy the old union of church andstate had been effected. The same population, the samegovernment, which before had adopted the slogan, Thepriests place is in the church, requested the cooperationof the clergy. And the church obeyed the call. Every-thing…
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