Uruffe

Uruffe is a commune in the Meurthe-et-Moselle department in north-eastern France.

The scandal of the priest of Uruffe

The scandal of the priest of Uruffe is a scandal that was in the news in the 50's. It deals with the crime committed by the Catholic priest Guy Desnoyers.

A peasant's son, Guy Desnoyers was ordained a priest in 1946. In July 1950, he was appointed parish priest in Uruffe. He was a very active priest and rather appreciated by his parishioners and won fame for organizing young boys of the area into a soccer team. However, at the same time, Guy Desnoyers had relationships with several women. In 1953, he conceived a child with a fifteen-year-old girl, Michèle L. He persuaded her to give birth secretly and to abandon her child. In 1956, he had another relationship with Régine Fays, a nineteen-year-old girl from Uruffe, whom he seduced in the theater activities he had created. She also gets pregnant. Desnoyers was able to persuade Régine's father that her lover is a young man of the village, gone to Algeria to fight. Régine promised to keep the secret about the father but she refused to give birth secretly.