GEORGES See also:DARBOY (1813-1871)
, See also:archbishop of See also:Paris, was See also:born at Fayl-Billot in Haut See also:Marne on the 16th of See also:January 1813
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He studied with distinction at the See also:seminary at See also:Langres, and was ordained See also:priest in 1836
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Transferred to Paris as See also:almoner of the See also:college of See also:- HENRY
- HENRY (1129-1195)
- HENRY (c. 1108-1139)
- HENRY (c. 1174–1216)
- HENRY (Fr. Henri; Span. Enrique; Ger. Heinrich; Mid. H. Ger. Heinrich and Heimrich; O.H.G. Haimi- or Heimirih, i.e. " prince, or chief of the house," from O.H.G. heim, the Eng. home, and rih, Goth. reiks; compare Lat. rex " king "—" rich," therefore " mig
- HENRY, EDWARD LAMSON (1841– )
- HENRY, JAMES (1798-1876)
- HENRY, JOSEPH (1797-1878)
- HENRY, MATTHEW (1662-1714)
- HENRY, PATRICK (1736–1799)
- HENRY, PRINCE OF BATTENBERG (1858-1896)
- HENRY, ROBERT (1718-1790)
- HENRY, VICTOR (1850– )
- HENRY, WILLIAM (1795-1836)
Henry IV., and honorary See also:canon of Notre See also:Dame, he became the See also:close friend of Archbishop See also:Affre and of his successor Archbishop Sibour
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He was appointed See also:bishop of See also:Nancy in 1859, and in January 1863 was raised to the archbishopric of Paris
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The archbishop was a strenuous upholder of episcopal See also:independence in the Gallican sense, and involved himself in a controversy with See also:Rome by his endeavours to suppress the See also:jurisdiction of the See also:Jesuits and other religious orders within his See also:diocese
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See also:Pius IX. refused him the See also:cardinal's See also:hat, and rebuked him for his liberalism in a See also:letter which was probably not intended for publication
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At the Vatican See also:council he vigorously maintained the rights of the bishops, and strongly opposed the See also:dogma of papal See also:infallibility, against which he voted as inopportune
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When the dogma had been finally adopted, however, he was one of the first to set the example of submission
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Immediately after his return to Paris the See also:war with See also:Prussia See also:broke out, and his conduct during the disastrous See also:year that followed was marked by a devoted heroism which has secured for him an enduring fame
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He was active in organizing See also:relief for the wounded at the commencement of the war, remained bravely at his See also:post during the See also:siege, and refused to seek safety by See also:flight during the brief See also:triumph of the See also:Commune
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On the 4th of See also:April 187 1 he was arrested by the communists as a See also:hostage, and confined in the See also:prison at Mazas, from which he was transferred to La Roquette on the advance of the See also:army of See also:Versailles
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On the 27th of May he was shot within the prison along with several other distinguished hostages
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He died in the attitude of blessing and uttering words of forgiveness
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His See also:body was recovered with difficulty, and, having been embalmed, was buried with imposing ceremony at the public expense on the 7th of See also:June
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It is a noteworthy fact that See also:Darboy was the third archbishop of Paris who perished by violence in the See also:period between 1848 and 1871
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Darboy was the author of a number of See also:works, of which the most important are a See also:Vie de St See also:- THOMAS
- THOMAS (c. 1654-1720)
- THOMAS (d. 110o)
- THOMAS, ARTHUR GORING (1850-1892)
- THOMAS, CHARLES LOUIS AMBROISE (1811-1896)
- THOMAS, GEORGE (c. 1756-1802)
- THOMAS, GEORGE HENRY (1816-187o)
- THOMAS, ISAIAH (1749-1831)
- THOMAS, PIERRE (1634-1698)
- THOMAS, SIDNEY GILCHRIST (1850-1885)
- THOMAS, ST
- THOMAS, THEODORE (1835-1905)
- THOMAS, WILLIAM (d. 1554)
Thomas See also:Becket (1859), a See also:translation of the works of St See also:Denis the Areopagite, and a translation of the See also:Imitation of See also:Christ
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See J
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Foulon, Histoire de la vie et See also:des ceuvres de Mgr
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Darboy (Paris, 1889), and J
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Guillermin, Vie de Mgr
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Darboy (Paris, 1888), See also:biographies written from the clerical standpoint, which have called forth a number of See also:pamphlets in reply
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