In the songs, what remains of Abbé Pierre?

After the recent revelations about his past, a look back at the aura of the founder of Emmaus in our popular culture.

Many French people in general, and artists in particular, saw in him a reference, like Ben l’Oncle Soul, who spoke in 2010, three years after Abbé Pierre had disappeared. And his singular voice, and also his role as a moral compass, has been remembered for generations.

His famous call on the radio in 1954 triggered what was called “the insurrection of kindness”and then the feeling, expressed by Tryo, that this goodness is forgotten as the abbot dies, even if, in this same year 2008, his words remain alive, as with this recording of one of his poems, by Lambert Wilson.

In the second episode of These songs that make the news, broadcast this weekend, you hear excerpts from:

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Well Uncle Soul, Soulman, 2010

Abbé Pierre, The appeal of February 1, 1954,

Tryo, You and me, 2008

Lambert Wilson, Poem by Abbé Pierre, 2008

David McNeil, At the time when the abbots, 1972

Laurent Voulzy, Jesus, 2001

Bernard Lavilliers, Third knives, 1994

Renaud, I found my gun, 2006

Mickey 3D, Yalil (the end of beans), 2002

Alain Souchon, Days without me, 1985

Laurent Voulzy, Jesus, 2001

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