Title : The Charcoal Burner's Faith - Marguerite Gentzbittel - book

Summary :

The woman whom all of France calls "Madame le Proviseur" is no longer a principal. Marguerite Gentzbittel promised to leave the Lycée Fénelon the year she turned sixty. She kept her word, believing that young people needed a more youthful leadership team.

So here she is, "free." Free to speak without violating the civil servant's obligation of confidentiality and without betraying a secular conviction that has never wavered. Free to evoke the "driving force behind her actions and her life": her Catholic faith. She is a strange parishioner, Marguerite Gentzbittel. The daughter of an anticlerical father and a very pious (but very critical) mother, she claims her dual origins. With her well-known verve, she says here what she believes, refutes the sectarian spirit, and combats proselytism. She speaks of her attachment to a certain convent where she almost entered and never left. She speaks of her gospel, her paradise; she speaks, above all, of her love of freedom and her hatred of the Crusades.

Believers will find this book disturbing and unexpected pages, while non-believers will find a stimulating introduction to what religious experience can be. Marguerite Gentzbittel proclaims herself obedient but not submissive, Catholic but not Vatican, charitable but immoral. Lukewarm readers will be disappointed.

• EAN : 9782020309028
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