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DARBOY, GEORGES (1813-1871)

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Originally appearing in Volume V07, Page 828 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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DARBOY, GEORGES (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 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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