The house of Abbot Victor Doussy

Abbot Victor Doussy (1878-1953), a little-known poet, spent 32 years working in the commune of Taller and did a great deal of work on the conservation of the church. A friend of Francis Jammes and Emmanuel Delbousquet, his taste for the arts in general was not always viewed favourably by the ecclesiastical hierarchy, which rejected his literary inclinations. If his friends, anxious to keep him drinking past midnight, sometimes delayed the clocks, he always managed to celebrate his morning mass. Here and there he was reproached for his "atheistic" frequentations. But these so-called digressions are not enough to hide the greatness of the soul of a man who wrote in one of his poems, Solitude: "If I possessed everything one could wish for to be happy, I would lack the essential: the happiness of others".