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GEORGES DARBOY (1813-1871)

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Originally appearing in Volume V07, Page 828 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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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 . He studied with distinction at the See also:seminary at See also:Langres, and was ordained See also:priest in 1836 . Transferred to Paris as See also:almoner of the See also:college of See also: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 . He was appointed See also:bishop of See also:Nancy in 1859, and in January 1863 was raised to the archbishopric of Paris . 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 . 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 . 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 . When the dogma had been finally adopted, however, he was one of the first to set the example of submission . 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 . 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 . 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 . On the 27th of May he was shot within the prison along with several other distinguished hostages .

He died in the attitude of blessing and uttering words of forgiveness . 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 . 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 . 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 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 . See J . A . Foulon, Histoire de la vie et See also:des ceuvres de Mgr . Darboy (Paris, 1889), and J . Guillermin, Vie de Mgr . 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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