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Georges Darboy (
January 16 1813 -
May 27 1871) was a
French Catholic priest, later
bishop of Nancy then
archbishop of Paris. He was among a group of prominent hostages executed as the
Paris Commune of 1871 was about to be overthrown.
Darboy was born in
Fayl-Billot,
Haute-Marne in north-east
France. He studied with distinction at the
seminary at
Langres, and was ordained priest in
1836. Transferred to Paris as
almoner of the college of
Henry IV, and honorary canon of
Nôtre Dame, he became the close friend of
Archbishop Affre and of his successor
Archbishop Sibour. He was appointed bishop of
Nancy in
1859, and in January
1863 was raised to the archbishopric of Paris. Darboy was a strenuous upholder of episcopal independence in the
Gallican sense, and involved himself in a controversy with
Rome by his endeavours to suppress the jurisdiction of the
Jesuits and other religious orders within his
diocese.
Pope Pius IX refused him the
cardinal's hat, and rebuked him for his liberalism in a letter which was probably not intended for publication.
He is also known for his opposition in 1868 to
Jacques-Paul Migne, forbidding him to continue his low-cost books business after the burning of his printing establishment, having suspended him from his priestly functions.
At the
First Vatican Council he vigorously maintained the rights of the bishops, and strongly opposed the
dogma of
papal 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 war with
Prussia broke out, and his conduct during the disastrous year that followed was marked by a devoted heroism which has secured for him an enduring fame. He was active in organizing relief for the wounded at the commencement of the war, remained bravely at his post during the siege, and refused to seek safety by flight during the brief triumph of the
Paris Commune.
On
April 4,
1871, he was arrested by the communards as a hostage and confined in the prison at
Mazas, from which he was transferred to
La Roquette on the advance of the army of
Versailles. On 24 May he was shot within the prison along with several other prominent hostages.(see:
Théophile Ferré) He died in the attitude of blessing and uttering words of forgiveness. His body was recovered with difficulty, and, having been embalmed, was buried with imposing ceremony at public expense on
June 7.
Darboy was the third archbishop of Paris to die violently between
1848 and
1871.
Darboy was the author of a number of works, of which the most important are a
Vie de St Thomas Becket (1859), a translation of the works of
St Denis the Areopagite, and a translation of the
Imitation of Christ.
See J.A. Foulon,
Histoire de la vie et des œuvres de Mgr. Darboy (Paris, 1889), and J. Guillermin,
Vie de Mgr. Darboy (Paris, 1888), biographies written from the clerical standpoint, which have called forth a number of pamphlets in reply.
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