See also:DENIS AUGUSTE See also:AFFRE (1793-1848)
, See also:archbishop of See also:Paris, was See also:born at St See also:Rome, in the See also:department of See also:Tarn, on the 27th of See also:September 1793
.
He was educated for the priesthood at St Sulpice, where in 1818 he became See also:professor of dogmatic See also:theology
.
After filling a number of ecclesiastical offices, he was elevated to the archbishopric of Paris in 1840
.
Though opposed to the See also:government of See also:- LOUIS
- LOUIS (804–876)
- LOUIS (893–911)
- LOUIS, JOSEPH DOMINIQUE, BARON (1755-1837)
- LOUIS, or LEWIS (from the Frankish Chlodowich, Chlodwig, Latinized as Chlodowius, Lodhuwicus, Lodhuvicus, whence-in the Strassburg oath of 842-0. Fr. Lodhuwigs, then Chlovis, Loys and later Louis, whence Span. Luiz and—through the Angevin kings—Hungarian
Louis Philippe, he took no See also:part in politics, but devoted himself to his See also:pastoral See also:work
.
His episcopate, however, is chiefly remembered owing to its tragic See also:close
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During the insurrection of See also:June 1848 the archbishop was led to believe that by his See also:personal interference See also:peace might be restored between the soldiery and the insurgents
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Accordingly, in spite of the warning of See also:General See also:Cavaignac, he mounted the See also:barricade at the entrance to the See also:Faubourg St See also:Antoine, bearing a See also:green See also:branch as sign of peace
.
He had spoken only a few words, however, when the insurgents, See also:hearing some shots, and fancying they
were betrayed, opened See also:fire upon the See also:national guard, and the archbishop See also:fell, struck by a stray See also:bullet
.
He was removed to his See also:palace, where he died on the 27th of June 1848
.
Next See also:day the National See also:Assembly issued a See also:decree expressing their See also:great sorrow on See also:account of his See also:death; and the public funeral on the 7th of See also:July was one of the most striking See also:spectacles of its See also:kind
.
The archbishop wrote several See also:treatises of considerable value, including an Essai sur See also:les hieroglyphes egyptiens (Paris, 1834), in which he showed that See also:Champollion's See also:system was insufficient to explain the See also:hieroglyphics
.
See See also:Ricard, Les grands eveeques de l'eglise de See also:France an XIXe siecle (See also:Lille, 1893); L
.
Alazard, See also:Denis-Auguste A ffre, arc/See also:league de Paris (Paris, 1905)
.
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