Georges Darboy

Georges Darboy , born with Fayl-Block, close to Langres where his/her parents are grocers, the January 16th 1813, carried out by the Commune to Paris the May 24th 1871, was bishop of Nancy, then archbishop of Paris of 1863 with 1871.

Biography

Ordered priest in 1836, it was little of time vicar of Notre-Dame with Saint-Dizier and professor with the great seminar of Langres; in 1845, it joined Monseigneur Affre in Paris; initially auxiliary priest at the House of the Carmelite friars and chaplain of the College Henri-Iv, it was soon high at the post of Chanoine to Notre-Dame, of general vicar and archdeacon of Saint-Denis, having before been named apostolic Protonotaire. Convinced republican, Darboy accommodates with enthusiasm the IIe République in 1848. In 1859 it was named bishop of Nancy, thanks to the support of the mediums gallicans, where, during the three years when it had the load of this diocese, it was interested especially in the questions of education, created the Saint-Léopold school, increases the great seminar and wrote (1862) his letter celebrates Sur the need for the étude.

Transferred by an imperial decree from the January 10th 1863 to the archbishop's palace from Paris, left vacant by the death of the cardinal Morlot, it devoted this year the cathedral Notre-Dame, then completely restored, and was honoured with the titles of Large Chaplain, senator and advising imperial. The Roman policy of Napoleon III (of which he was the large chaplain and that he supports with firmness against the hostility of most of the catholic opinion and clergy sensitive to the ultramontane theses ), the conduit with the Senate in 1864.

Although it missed the independence of Monseigneur Affre, the administrative competence of Monseigneur Sibour and the affability of the Morlot cardinal, Darboy was an educated, conscientious and respected prelate. With the assistance of men such as Buquet, Isoard, Langénieux, Meignan and Foulon, it gave a new impulse to the administration that in his old age its predecessor had somewhat neglected.

Whereas, more and more, the French clergy passed to the Ultramontanisme, Darboy remained one of the last gallicans, which was worth to him never not to receive the cardinal's hat and to see réprimander by the Pape in a private letter that an error made publish. One reproached him for being shown more subjected than it would not have owed with the imperial wishes and to adopt against the exemptions of the monks an attitude only Rome (1869) forced it to give up. It was the primary reason which arranged it, during the Concile of the Vatican, with the minority which regarded as inappropriate the definition of the pontifical Infaillibilité. Its motivations were of nature more political than theological. Darboy was one of those which thought of a diplomatic intervention as by means of putting a term at these difficulties. It left Rome before the final vote of the July 18th 1870 by expressing feelings which it however retracted several months after the definition when it ends up subscribing to it.

During the head office of Paris Darboy acted like a Pasteur truth and gained the admiration of all. Decree the April 4th 1871, according to the order of the Commune of Paris and locked up to the prison of Refined, all the efforts of his/her friends did not manage to save it, the government of Versailles having refused all the proposals for an exchange formulated by the Commune, in particular against Blanqui. It was carried out like hostage during the bloody Semaine, the May 24th, in the Rocket and died by blessing its torturers. After the Commune, state funeral was celebrated for him and the other hostages.

Its cell of detention and the wall where he was shot is kept since the beginning of the 20th century in the crypt of the large vault of the Saint-Sulpice seminar of Issy-les-Moulineaux.

Darboy is the author of the following works:

Œuvres of saint Denys Aréopagite, translated grec (Paris, 1845);
Les women of Bible (Paris, 1846 - 1849);
Les holy femmes (Paris, 1850);
Lettres in Combalot (Paris, 1851);
Jérusalem and the Earth Sainte (Paris, 1852);
L' imitation of Jesus-Christ, nouvelle translation (Paris, 1852);
Statistic nun of the diocese of Paris (Paris, 1856);
Saint Thomas Becket (Paris, 1858).

He also collaborated in the Correspondant (1847-1855) and was during one year (1850) directing of the Monitor Catholique.

External bond

Georges Darboy on the site of the Conference of the bishops of France

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