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The seven Suffragan Bishops of the Archdiocese of Paris will act as pall bearers. Monseigneur Darboy will be interred in the tomb of the Archbishops of Paris in the vaults of the Cathedral See. The Abbé Duguerry will be burried in the vaults of the Madeleine, and the other hostages in the Cemetery of Père-Lachaise.
When Archbishop Darboy was brought before the notorious "delegate," Raoul Rigault, he began to speak, saying, "My children " "Citizen," interrupted Rigault, "you are not here before children, we are men!" This sally was heartily applauded in the publications of the Commune.
Then the list from Mazas was demanded. The director could not find it. At last, after long searching, they discovered it themselves. Genton, the man in command, sat down to pick out his six victims. He wrote Darboy, Bonjean, Jecker, Allard, Clerc, Ducoudray. Then he paused, rubbed out Jecker, and put in Duguerrey.
The names of "Lecompte," "Thomas" and "Darboy," Paul heard frequently, mentioned by the half drunken and excited crowd. Then a fierce cheer echoed along the street. The women of Monmartre with long ropes attached to cannons came streaming up the boulevard. It was a wild and never to be forgotten sight. Many of the women wore army coats over which their hair floated loose.
They formed a government of their own, extorted loans from wealthy citizens, confiscated the property of religious societies, and seized and held as hostages Archbishop Darboy and many other distinguished clergymen and citizens.
At a dinner given by the Cardinal Archbishop of Paris to all the members of the Congress, he sat next to the Abbé Darboy, one day to succeed to the see and meet a martyr's death in the Commune.
In the evening of the 22d the victims forty of them the good Darboy, Duguerry, Bonjean, and others were piled into a transport-wagon with only a board placed across, where they could sit, and were taken to the place of execution. The Archbishop seemed suffering; probably the privations he had endured had weakened him.
In preparation for the worst they stored combustibles in the noblest edifices of the city, and then, laying their hands on some of the most eminent and venerated of its inhabitants, they penned them in a body for the contingency of prospective slaughter. They had no more personal animosity against Monseigneur DARBOY than against any statue in the Tuileries or the Louvre.
He had seen Frederic le Maitre at the Comédie Française. He had been at Court and spoken with the Prince Imperial. He was on terms of intimacy with Monsignori, and had been a protégé of the sainted Darboy. It was a rare pleasure to hear him talk of these things. Before this, the ceaseless shifting of brothers from one house to another had been indifferent to me.
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