Scandal among the religious, Abbot Pierre lived with this older woman “she…

“Abbé Pierre also needs help to distribute newspapers for young people who want to escape the STO. Lucie masters the secretarial work, is organized… they are perfectly complementary,” says Frédéric Tellier, who is releasing a film next Wednesday about their duo, played on screen by Benjamin Lavernhe and Emmanuelle Bercot.

Without her, Emmaüs…

Both will experience together the end of the war, the period during which Abbé Pierre becomes deputy but above all the creation of Emmaüs. Quickly, it was in fact the organized Lucie who took charge of managing the organization represented in the media by Abbé Pierre. More discreet than him, she is essential to the project.

“Without her, Emmaüs would not exist. This is what all the companions say […] and they say the truth,” explained Abbé Pierre, whose association always helps those who need it most today. Having gone through Public Assistance, the young woman trained as a secretary developed the association until her death in 1982, at the age of 83.

And “if they are not a ‘couple’ in the biblical sense of the term”, as our colleagues from Gala remind us, both live together and it is with Abbé Pierre, in Charenton-le-Pont, in Val-de-Marne that Lucie dies, watched over by her friend. Twenty-five years later, in 2007, it was Abbé Pierre who passed away at the age of 94 after an infection.

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