His funeral on 26 January 2007 at the Cathedral of Notre Dame de Paris was attended by numerous distinguished people: President Jacques Chirac, former President Valéry Giscard d ' Estaing, Prime Minister Dominique de Villepin, many French Ministers, and of course the Companions of Emmaus, who were placed at the front of the congregation in the cathedral, according to Abbé Pierre's last wishes.

A local priest, Abbé Dominique Peyramale, together with his bishop, Monsignor Bertrand-Sévère Mascarou Laurence, bought the grotto and the land around it from the commune in 1861, 3 years after the apparitions.

The earliest investigators, including the priest Abbé Dominique Peyramale and the Chief of Police, Dominique Jacomet, were both initially convinced they were dealing with a hoax ( each later changed his mind ), and several researchers have since called several aspects of the Lourdes phenomenon into question.

Civil authorities try to have Bernadette declared insane, while Abbé Peyramale, the fatherly cleric who once doubted her and now becomes her staunchest ally, asks for a formal investigation to find out if Bernadette is a fraud, insane, or genuine.

Knowing she is dying, Bernadette sends for Abbé Peyramale ( who in reality died a few years before Bernadette ) and tells him of her feelings of unworthiness and her concern that she will never see the lady again.

Construction was started by Abbé Peyramale and Mgr.

# Charles de Saint-Albin, dit l ' Abbé d ' Orléans, Archbishop of Cambrai, legitimized in 1706 ( Paris, 1698-Paris, 1764, bur Paris )

According to Abbé Faillon, Charles Le Moyne, lord of the area starting in 1657, named Longueuil after a village which is today the seat of a canton in the district of Dieppe in his homeland of Normandy.

Among early members were the dominating comte de Mirabeau, Parisian deputy Abbé Sieyès, Dauphiné deputy Antoine Barnave, Jérôme Pétion, the Abbé Grégoire, Charles Lameth, Alexandre Lameth, Robespierre, the duc d ' Aiguillon, and La Revellière-Lépeaux.

by Charles le Beau, Le Mascrier, the Abbé Des Fontaines, 1734 ).

Emmaus Greenwich, in Plumstead, was converted from an unneeded children's home, and was opened by Prince Charles on 29 November 1994, in the presence of Abbé Pierre and Robert Runcie.

* Charles Edouard Drummond, 5th Earl and Duke of Melfort and 10th Duke of Perth ( 1752 – 1840 ), " Abbé de Melfort ", his brother

His chief successes were attained by portiaits, and those of Charles Nodier and the Abbé Lamennais became widely popular.

It first appeared on documents in 1787, by a Jersey business man Charles Robin, and Abbé Joseph Mathurin Bourg, the first Acadian priest.

Old French Sign Language was used in Paris ' deaf community, long before l ’ Abbé Charles Michel de l ’ Épée came and started his deaf school.

* Charles Philippe Dijon de Monteton, Der lange Schatten des Abbé Bonnot de Mably.

Following in the steps of the Abbé Charles Bossut ( Nouvelles Experiences sur la resistance des fluides, 1777 ), he published, in 1786, a revised edition of his Principes d ' hydraulique, which contains a satisfactory theory of the motion of fluids, founded solely upon experiments.

Many of Church's doctoral students have led distinguished careers, including C. Anthony Anderson, Peter B. Andrews, George A. Barnard, William W. Boone, Martin Davis, Alfred L. Foster, Leon Henkin, John G. Kemeny, Stephen C. Kleene, Simon B. Kochen, Maurice L ' Abbé, Isaac Malitz, Gary R. Mar, Michael O. Rabin, Nicholas Rescher, Hartley Rogers, Jr., J. Barkley Rosser, Dana Scott, Raymond Smullyan, and Alan Turing.

The earliest reference that might be relevant to Mokèlé-mbèmbé stories ( though the term is not used in the source ) comes from the 1776 book of Abbé Lievain Bonaventure, a French missionary to the Congo River region.

Manon Lescaut ( L ' Histoire du chevalier des Grieux et de Manon Lescaut ) is a short novel by French author Abbé Prévost.

He is trapped by the Abbé Herrera ( Vautrin ) in a convoluted and disastrous plan to regain social status.

It was important to Zola that no character should appear larger than life ; but the criticism that Zola ’ s characters are cardboard, is a substantially more damaging one which in view of the characterization of Gervaise Macquart ( L ' Assommoir ), Nana Coupeau ( Nana ), Jacques Lantier ( La Bête humaine ), Serge Mouret ( La Faute de l ' Abbé Mouret ), Jean Macquart ( La Terre ) and Pascal Rougon ( Le Docteur Pascal ), may seriously be doubted.

Human life is raised to the level of the mythical as the hammerblows of Titans are seemingly heard underground at Le Voreux or in La Faute de l ' Abbé Mouret, the walled park of Le Paradou encloses a re-enactment – and restatement – of the myth of the Book of Genesis.

The poet is the artist in words whose writing, as in the racecourse scene in Nana or in the descriptions of the laundry in L ' Assommoir or in many passages of La Faute de l ' Abbé Mouret, Le Ventre de Paris and La Curée, vies with the colourful impressionistic techniques of Claude Monet and Pierre-Auguste Renoir.

The genus Correa is named after the Portuguese botanist José Correia da Serra ( 1750 – 1823 ), known as Abbé Correa.

Although Annas is not mentioned by name in the plot to kill Lazarus, several 19th Century writers such as Johann Nepomuk Sepp and the Abbé Drioux, considered that there may be a concealed reference to Annas in the parable of the Rich Man and Lazarus which points at a " Rich man " with five sons.

During his fourteen years imprisonment in the Château d ' If, Dantès befriends the Abbé Faria (" The Mad Priest "), a fellow prisoner who is trying to tunnel his way to freedom, and who claims knowledge of a massive treasure and continually offers to reward the guards well if they release him.

* Monsieur Zaccone: Dantès, in the guise of the Abbé Busoni, and again as Lord Wilmore, tells an investigator that this is the Count of Monte Cristo's true name.

* 1988: The Prisoner of Castle If, Soviet miniseries starring Viktor Avilov ( Count of Monte Cristo ) and Aleksei Petrenko ( Abbé Faria ), composer is Alexander Gradsky

One is that it was a combination of " Abbe " for Abbé Mégret and " ville " for town — thus Abbé's town.

In La conquête de Plassans ( set in 1864-1865 ), Eugène is the unnamed " friend " who sends Abbé Faujas to Plassans to solidify support for the Emperor there.

The reaction of the townsfolk to this outside influence is fascinatingly drawn by Zola, and the tactics of the groups who are in " resistance " to Abbé Faujas ' clever machinations are very keenly observed.

' His source is the " Abbé Constant ", which is to say, Alphonse-Louis Constant, the real name of Eliphas Lévi.

Young Vergniaud was first tutored at home by a Jesuit scholar, Abbé Roby, a master of ancient languages: it is likely that Vergniaud's lifelong love of the classics was inspired by him.

The best modern edition is that of the Abbé Blampignon ( Paris, 1865 – 1868, 4 vols.

* Sewell, Jr., William H. A rhetoric of bourgeois revolution: the Abbé Sieyes and What is the Third Estate ?.

Octave's brother is the priest Serge ( La faute de l ' Abbé Mouret ), who serves as guardian to their mentally challenged sister Desirée.

In Twenty Years After he is a Jesuit known as the Abbé d ' Herblay ( but prefers to go by the title of Chevalier d ' Herblay ).

Antlia was created in 1756 by the French astronomer Abbé Nicolas Louis de Lacaille, who created fourteen constellations for the southern sky to fill some faint regions.

I have lately received from Italy a treatise on the equilibrium of arches, by the Abbé Mascheroni.

The alphabet, first described completely by Spanish monks, was adopted by the Abbé de l ' Épée's deaf school in Paris in the 18th century, and was then spread to deaf communities around the world in the 19th and 20th centuries via educators who had learned it in Paris.

As early as 1819, in his famous speech “ On Ancient and Modern Liberty ,” the political philosopher Benjamin Constant, a proponent of constitutional monarchy and representative democracy, criticized Rousseau, or rather his more radical followers ( specifically the Abbé de Mably ), for allegedly believing that " everything should give way to collective will, and that all restrictions on individual rights would be amply compensated by participation in social power .”

After the Abbé Pierre's death in January 2007, Italian magistrate Carlo Mastelloni recalled in the Corriere della Sera that the Abbé Pierre had " spontaneously testified " in the 1980s in support of a group of Italian activists who had fled to Paris and were involved with the Hyperion language school, directed by Vanni Mulinaris.

After Vanni Mulinari's travel to Udine and subsequent arrest by the Italian justice, the Abbé Pierre went to talk in 1983 with Italian President Sandro Pertini to plead Mulinari's cause.

The Abbé had even observed eight days of a hunger strike from May 26, 1984 to June 3 in the Cathedral of Turin to protest the conditions suffered by " Brigadists " in Italian prisons and the imprisonment without trial of Vanni Mulinari, who was recognized as innocent some time afterwards.

Gallaudet then travelled to Paris and learned the educational methods of the French Royal Institution for the Deaf, a combination of Old French Sign Language and the signs developed by Abbé de l ’ Épée.

It was first popularized by Jansen's friend Jean du Vergier, Abbé de Saint-Cyran, and after Saint-Cyran's death in 1643 was led by Antoine Arnauld.

In the same year, a series of articles on the subject of the rhythmic quantities of Gregorian musical signs began to be published, entitled ' La Question Rhythmique Grégorienne ' by the Abbé G Delorme.

Also, future revolutionary leader Maximilien de Robespierre and abolitionist Abbé Grégoire were awarded by the National Academy of Metz in 1784 and 1787, respectively, for their essays on capital punishment and in favor of the education of underprivileged people and the religious tolerance.

An edition of Bossuet's sermons was edited by Abbé Lebarq in 6 vols.

Cornered by " Abbé Busoni " while attempting to rob the Count's house, Caderousse begs to be given another chance, but Dantès grimly notes that the last two times he did so, Caderousse did not change.

One of these visions made known by Brentano later resulted in the actual identification of the real House of the Virgin Mary in Ephesus by Abbé Julien Gouyet, a French priest, during 1881.

An article on the Paleophone was published in " la semaine du Clergé " on October 10, 1877, written by l ' Abbé Leblanc.

The earliest European settlement in the area was a French mission, built by Abbé Picquet in 1749.

This was originally proposed by Abbé Anton Moro ( 1687 – 1750 ) with reference to his studies of volcanic islands, and was taken up by James Hutton who put forward a uniformitarian theory extending over infinite time in which rocks were worn away by weathering and erosion, then were re-formed and uplifted by heat and pressure.