Abbe Pierre made his now famous radio appeal to help the homeless and "mal logé": "Help my friends! Tonight a woman has frozen to death". From this grew the Fondation Abbe Pierre and the fundraising efforts of Emmaus (which he founded 5 years earlier in 1949) with the specific aim of providing shelter to the "sans-abris". In 1954 it was estimated that 54% of French people lived in unfit conditions, now thought to be about 5% of whom about 140000 are considered homeless.
Abbe Pierre, who died in 2007, was consistently voted France's most popular person.
Perhaps TAG should have a "like list" and after what I have read about Abbe Pierre, he would top the list.
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