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PODCAST. When Father Prévost fainted, the surgeon cut open his stomach with a scalpel. Which definitely kills him.
Frederic Lewino and Gwendoline Dos Santos
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On November 25, 1763, the surgeon of the Benedictine monastery of Saint-Nicolas-d’Acy – located on the edge of the forest of Chantilly – was roused from his sleep in the middle of the night by a distraught man. This one asks him to go as quickly as possible to the presbytery of the church of Courteuil where the bailiff of the monastery awaits him at the bedside of a dead man. The surgeon grumbles, gets up, puts on his boots, grabs his instruments and plunges into the night behind his guide.
After a good walk, they arrived at the parish priest of Courteuil. The bailiff welcomes him briefly before pointing out a man in his sixties, lying dead on the bed. The surgeon easily recognizes Abbé Prévost, a former Benedictine monk who returned home after traveling the world. He became famous after…
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