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Abstract
: It was just after the 1870 war and the subsequent
‘Commune’ events in Paris that Paulin Enfert, an
ordinary clerk living in one of the poorest districts in
Paris, the 13th, decided to devote himself to
underprivileged children of the area, gathering them in
the deserted ditches around Paris to organize various
games and give them Catechism classes. Then, his modest
initiative grew up and spread, giving birth of a
‘patronage’. It also led to many new and ambitious
actions dedicated to the poor people excluded from the
‘Belle Epoque’.
Even after his death in 1922, Paulin Enfert’s good works
went on. Some of them have survived over the decades
such as the soup kitchen called ‘La Mie de Pain’, which
every night provides hundreds of homeless with a decent
meal. The Refuge, founded in 1932 according to his will,
which can accommodate about 426 people, also remains
today the largest structure of the kind in France.
Through
Paulin Enfert life and action, we discover the
reality, the economic and social context of the most
vulnerable population of Paris during the "Belle
Epoque"
ISBN :
978-2-204-10106-6 - SODIS : 8298027 - EAN :
9782204101066
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