by Pierre abbé · Tapa blanda · ISBN 9782749100159
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«Je voulais être marin, missionnaire ou brigand» is a collection of intimate writings by Abbé Pierre, published in hardback by Le Cherche Midi (225 pages).
The volume is a selection of Abbé Pierre's diaries and thoughts, presented by Denis Lefèvre. It covers his vocation, his work with the Emmaüs movement and his commitment to the poor, along with personal reflections on social exclusion in twentieth-century France.
The work was published in 2002, its text is in French and its full registered title is «Je voulais être marin, missionnaire ou brigand: carnets intimes et pensées choisies».
It is a work for those interested in twentieth-century French social history, the thought of Abbé Pierre and his fight against poverty.
Abbé Pierre (born Henri Marie Joseph Grouès; was a French Catholic priest. He was a member of the Resistance during World War II and deputy of the Popular Republican Movement. In 1949, he founded the Emmaus movement, with the goal of helping poor and homeless people. For several decades, he was one of the most popular public figures in France. Allegations that he had sexually abused dozens of women, as well as several underage girls, emerged in 2024 and 2025.
