Who is this father Jacques who confesses four hours a day and especially towards whom the faithful flock, to receive a sacrament that the quidam deserted these days? This is the question that arises for Jérôme des Aulnais, a Parisian lawyer, who is passing through the city where the priest officiates. It has been a while since he has had recourse to absolution, but intrigued he has entered it; the voice behind the gate immediately reminds him of another. A forty year old memory. Young lawyer, he had assisted a president of the bar to defend the priest of Bief, author of a dreadful act, the assassination of his pregnant mistress, and of the child she was carrying. Sordid, but crucial detail: before killing the child, he baptized him. A monster, but a priest. Here we recognize the main elements of the crime of Uruffe, which hit the headlines in France in the 1950s.
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What to do with such a criminal? Mgr Anselmos, who has just arrived in Nivoise, diocese where Jacques Charlébègue is incardinated,
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