01315cam a22002771 4500 2771 FISKH 20240112164953.0 740813s1955 nyua 000 0 eng 55005041 (OCoLC)977138 DLC TxU-Da OCoLC DLC eng fre premarc HV4096.P3 S53 362.5 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. Pierre, abbé, 1912-2007. Poor France Paris. 7 cbc oclcrpl u ncip 19 y-gencatlg ddc BK 0 2771 2771 0 0 ddc 0 0 NFIC 001 001 TKSNF 2024-01-12 0 SIM 362.5 HV4096.P3 2024-0028 2024-01-12 16:49:49 2024-01-12 BK