Abbé Pierre and the ragpickers of Emmaus;
Simon, Boris.
Abbé Pierre and the ragpickers of Emmaus; translated by Lucie Noel - London : Harvill Press, 1955 - 200 pages : illustrations, 22 cm.
The Abbé Pierre has tackled in France the problems of homeless people in a new way. First he bought a house and sheltered a few down-and-out men. Then he organized his ragpickers, combed the dust-bins and the dumps, and then the sewers, and sold the salvage. He bought land, put up huts; bought more land, till he had housed 180 families; the scheme is growing daily. He has now achieved a responsible community of workers in which the poor help the poor. This is not a sociological blueprint but a gripping human story of the lives he has saved.
55005041
Pierre, abbé, 1912-2007.
Poor--France--Paris.
HV4096.P3 / S53
362.5
Abbé Pierre and the ragpickers of Emmaus; translated by Lucie Noel - London : Harvill Press, 1955 - 200 pages : illustrations, 22 cm.
The Abbé Pierre has tackled in France the problems of homeless people in a new way. First he bought a house and sheltered a few down-and-out men. Then he organized his ragpickers, combed the dust-bins and the dumps, and then the sewers, and sold the salvage. He bought land, put up huts; bought more land, till he had housed 180 families; the scheme is growing daily. He has now achieved a responsible community of workers in which the poor help the poor. This is not a sociological blueprint but a gripping human story of the lives he has saved.
55005041
Pierre, abbé, 1912-2007.
Poor--France--Paris.
HV4096.P3 / S53
362.5