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| Coordinates:48°34′12″N5°44′41″E / 48.57°N 5.7447°E /48.57; 5.7447 | |
| Country | France |
| Region | Grand Est |
| Department | Meurthe-et-Moselle |
| Arrondissement | Toul |
| Canton | Meine au Saintois |
| Intercommunality | CC Pays de Colombey et Sud Toulois |
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| • Mayor(2020–2026) | Elisabeth Delcroix[1] |
Area 1 | 13.05 km2 (5.04 sq mi) |
| Population (2022)[2] | 367 |
| • Density | 28.1/km2 (72.8/sq mi) |
| Time zone | UTC+01:00 (CET) |
| • Summer (DST) | UTC+02:00 (CEST) |
| INSEE/Postal code | 54538 /54112 |
| Elevation | 257–401 m (843–1,316 ft) (avg. 270 m or 890 ft) |
| 1 French Land Register data, which excludes lakes, ponds, glaciers > 1 km2 (0.386 sq mi or 247 acres) and river estuaries. | |
Uruffe (French pronunciation:[yʁyf]) is acommune in theMeurthe-et-Moselledepartment in north-easternFrance.
The scandal of the priest of Uruffe was a newsworthy event in the 1950s. It concerns the crime committed by theCatholicpriest Guy Desnoyers.
A peasant's son, Guy Desnoyers was ordained a priest in 1946. In July 1950, he was appointedparish priest in Uruffe. He was a very active priest who was rather appreciated by his parishioners, and won fame for organizing young boys of the area into asoccer team. However, at the same time, 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 became pregnant. Desnoyers was able to persuade Régine's father that her lover was a young man from the village who went to fight in theAlgerian War. Régine promised to keep the secret about the father but she refused to give birth secretly.
On 3 December 1956, a short time before the expected delivery date, a frightened Desnoyers shot his mistress in the head on a road. He then performed aCaesarean to extract the female child she bore. He then baptized and killed the baby, slashing its face to prevent recognition. The day after, he helped to search for the bodies, claiming that he knew the murderer but was unable to expose the murderer because of the obligations imposed by receiving confessions. On 5 December he confessed his crime. On 26 January 1958 he was condemned, by theCourt of assizes ofNancy, to forced labor for life. He was released in August 1978 and retired in amonastery inBrittany, where he died in 2010.
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