InvestigationIn conflict with one of their employees, Les Pieux Etablissements de la France in Rome and Lorette, responsible for the administration of several churches and owners of a vast property heritage, are the subject of heavy criticism.
It is a small, peaceful village located in the heart of historic Rome, equidistant from Piazza Navona and the Pantheon. And as in any self-respecting old village, in the center, there is a church.
Everything on the facade of Saint-Louis-des-Français emphasizes the link with France, from the statues of two kings (Charlemagne and Louis IX) and two queens (Clotilde and Jeanne de Valois) to the salamander motifs recalling the figure by François Ier. If it was to dispel the last doubts, the neighboring building, which houses the Stendhal bookstore and the Saint-Louis cultural center, is decorated with a blue-white-red flag.
Since the start of the pandemic, this little corner of France, usually drowned in floods of tourists, has been plunged into a wadded torpor. It is only on Sunday noon, at the end of mass, that the square finds a little animation. While the children let off steam, we exchange banalities between the faithful or with the priests of the community of Saint-Louis, before returning home. But in recent months, an unusual subject has arisen in the conversations: the very opaque management of the Pious Establishments of France in Rome and Lorette (here, we simply say “the Pious”), the structure responsible for administering the heritage of the French Church in Rome. And we only talk about this apart and in a low voice.
A whole shocked community
Everything starts from an almost innocuous story. At the end of 2019, the parents of the chaplaincy students of the Lycée Chateaubriand (the French school in the center of Rome) learned from a letter from the rector of Saint-Louis-des-Français, Mr.gr Bousquet, whom the much appreciated manager of this small association, Mr.me B., is going to cease her activities, since she has not “Accepted the offer expressly made to him to work, from 1er January 2020, under Italian contract ». Intrigued, some begin to ask questions, and this is how the whole affair turns out: since the fall of 2018, Mr.me B. unsuccessfully asks that the fifteen years of arrears of social contributions which are due to him be settled, and refuses to sign an Italian contract which would lower his salary by 30%. Fearing to be made redundant without compensation or rights, Mme B. brought the case to litigation before the industrial tribunal of Tarbes, where she signed her contract.
“Everyone knows she was cheated, and it’s only a few tens of thousands of dollars, while the Piles have millions in reserve. »Gaël de Guichen, member of the General Congregation of Pious Establishments
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