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“They were determined to execute them”: the Carmelites of Compiègne, guillotined under the Terror, whose martyrdom inspired the most performed opera in the world

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In 1794, at the height of the violent de-Christianization movement initiated in France by the revolutionaries, 16 of the 19 nuns of the Carmel of Compiègne were guillotined after a trial on charges of fanaticism. In 1947, Georges Bernanos wrote “Dialogues of the Carmelites” based on their story. Ten years later, Francis Poulenc made it the most performed opera in the world. That's the Sunday story.
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