![]() ![]() The nuns had been evicted during the French Revolution and the convent's buildings either demolished or sold to private buyers. There was little else in Poissy except for the ancient priory of Saint-Louis, a walled convent that had once been home to an order of Dominican nuns. It boasted a twelfth-century church, an equally ancient bridge, and a weekly cattle market that supplied the butcher shops of Paris and, every Tuesday, left the medieval streets steaming with manure. One gloomy January day in 1863, Jean-Louis-Ernest Meissonier, the world's wealthiest and most celebrated painter, dressed himself in the costume of Napoleon Bonaparte and, despite the snowfall, climbed onto the rooftop balcony of his mansion in Poissy.Ī town with a population of a little more than 3,000, Poissy lay eleven miles northwest of Paris, on the south bank of an oxbow in the River Seine and on the railway line running from the Gare Saint-Lazare to the Normandy coast. ![]()
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He was terse, acerbic, and opinionated, as harsh and unyielding as the landscape. ![]() ![]() Embracing the desert spirituality of renunciations, he had little patience for the inessential. “A monk’s past is meaningless,” he said brusquely. Michael was a young American, but he rebuffed my curiosity about his journey from a Pennsylvania childhood to an ascetic community in the Egyptian wasteland. Sinai, I met a monk from the Orthodox monastery at the foot of the mountain. Emperor Constantine and bishops holding the Nicene Creed. ![]() ![]() ![]() Center for National Policy Review, Washington, DC, director of research, 1978–80 served as an expert witness in civil rights cases for U.S. ![]() E-mail- ĬAREER: Tougaloo College, Tougaloo, MS, assistant professor, 1968–70, associate professor of sociology, 1970–75, chairperson of Sociology and Anthropology Department, 1969–73, chairperson of Division of Social Science, 1972–74 University of Vermont, Burlington, associate professor, 1975–83, professor of sociology, 1984–96, professor emeritus Smithsonian Institution, senior research fellow, 1997–2000 Catholic University, adjunct professor, 1997–. Office-c/o Department of Sociology, University of Vermont, 31 Prospect St., Burlington, VT 05405. Religion: Unitarian Universalist.ĪDDRESSES: Home-Washington, DC. ![]() PERSONAL: Born February 6, 1942, in Decatur, IL son of David Frank (a physician) and Winifred (a librarian) Loewen divorced children: Bruce Nicholas, Lucy Catherine. ![]() |