Madame Vaillant's father, Monsignor Albert de L'isle de Lesbos, has condemned her statements; saying that they fly in the face of the principles of the Church of Rome as does the contraception which is all too often a necessary concomitant of concubinage.

Madame Vaillant shouted back: "Sod off!" At this the factions behind each side in the main square of some Sleepy Hollow in central France began swinging axes at each other, while the townmen's mistresses looked down from their attic rooms at the bloodshed beneath.

Madame Vaillant and her father are believed to be in an unstable condition, still swinging their axes and shouting out various profanities in latin.