execution was ordered by Théophile Ferré, who later was executed by firing squad by the French government after the fall of the Commune. Darboy 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 7 June. He was the third archbishop of Paris to die violently between 1848 and 1871 after Denis Auguste Affre (killed 1848) and Marie-Dominique-Auguste Sibour (assassinated in 1857). Works Œuvres de Saint Denys l'Aréopagite (1845). Les Femmes de la Bible (1846–1849). Les Saintes Femmes (1850). Lettres à Combalot (1851). Jérusalem et la Terre Sainte (1852). L'Imitation de Jésus-Christ (1852). Statistique Religieuse du Diocèse de Paris (1856). Saint Thomas Becket (1858). Du Gouvernement de Soi-même (1867). See also List of works by Eugène Guillaume Raoul Rigault References Further reading Horvath-Peterson, Sandra (1982). "Abbé Georges Darboy's 'Statistique Religieuse du Diocèse de Paris' (1856)," The Catholic Historical Review, Vol. 68, No. 3, pp. 401–450. Katz, Philip M. (1994). "'Lessons from Paris': The American Clergy Responds to the Paris Commune," Church History, Vol. 63, No. 3, pp. 393–406. Parsons, Reuben (1901). "The Clerical Victims of the Commune of 1871." In: Studies in Church History, Vol. VI. New York: Fr. Pustet & Co., pp. 85–110. Price, Lewis C. (1915). Archbishop Darboy and Some French Tragedies, 1813-1871. London: George Allen & Unwin. Vizetelly, Ernest Alfred (1914). My Adventures in the Commune, Paris, 1871. London: Chatto & Windus. External links Works by Georges Darboy, at Hathi Trust 1813 births 1871 deaths People from Langres Bishops of Nancy Archbishops of Paris People of the Paris Commune 19th-century Roman Catholic archbishops in France Grand Officiers of the Légion d'honneur Executed French people French anti-communists Executed people from Champagne-Ardenne