Word: mesmin
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...sophisticates who seek the dark, steep and tortuous streets ascending Montmartre when the hour is really too advanced for one to be seen elsewhere. As a novelty, La Petite Chaumiere combined the twin appeals of Sadism and Inversion, produced a "ballet" re-enacting the celebrated events of the recent Mesmin Case at Bombon. (TIME...
...Sainted Mother Marie." A strapping Italian youth enacted the role of Mme. Mesmin, the notorious "Sainted Mother Marie," chief flagellant of the Sadistic order of Notre Dame Des Pleurs, which has flourished for 21 years at Bordeaux, France. Attired in a "mother hubbard" and brandishing a knotted rope end, he led the ballet of 20 young men similarly costumed, with their lips painted, their cheeks rouged, their eyebrows plucked...
...which had been administered to him with knotted rope ends by his Bordeaux assailants. One by one they were called to the stand and stoutly continued to maintain that they had flogged the Abbé "because he has menaced the life of our Sainted Mother Marie," i. e., Marie Mesmin, a former Bordeaux concierge, who has headed the cult of Notre Dame des Pleurs for 21 years, and presided at most of its Sadistic rites...
...Abbé des Noyers declared last week that, far from being a member of the cult, he had originally been called to Bordeaux at the request of Mme. Mesmin, who wished him to dispel her curse...
...Mesmin's followers, "chiefly of the well-to-do middle class, men and women from 17 to 70," declared on the other hand, that the Abbé had not only joined the cult and participated in its rites of flagellation, but had aspired to supersede Mme. Mesmin, and had accordingly instigated a young girl to murder her on Christmas night. The girl failed in this alleged attempt, but early in the week Mme. Mesmin's loyal adherents set out for Bombon, "to discipline the Abbé des Noyers...