Uruffe (French pronunciation: [yʁyf]) is a commune in the Meurthe-et-Moselle department in north-eastern France.

He was a very active priest who was rather appreciated by his parishioners, and won fame for organizing young boys of the area into a soccer team.

In 1956, he had another relationship with Régine Fays, a nineteen-year-old girl from Uruffe, whom he seduced in the theater activities he had created; she also became pregnant.

Desnoyers was able to persuade Régine's father that her lover was a young man from the village who went to fight in the Algerian War.

On 3 December 1956, a short time before the expected delivery date, a frightened Desnoyers shot his mistress in the head on a road.