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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.
I felt somewhat astonished that my countryman, who was said to be master of fifty languages, had to get some one to read his speech in French. The Abbe Duguerry now came forward amid great cheering, and said that "the eminent journalist, Girardin, and the great English logician, Mr.
The session was opened by a speech from M. Coquerel, the Protestant clergyman in Paris. His speech was received with much applause, and seemed to create great sensation in the Congress, especially at the close of his remarks, when he was seized by the hand by the Abbe Duguerry, amid the most deafening and enthusiastic applause of the entire multitude.
Cobden Henry Vincent M. Girardin Abbe Duguerry Victor Hugo: his Speech. VERSAILLES, August 24. After the Convention had finished its sittings yesterday, I accompanied Mrs. M. C and sisters to Versailles, where they are residing during the summer. It was really pleasing to see among the hundreds of strange faces in the Convention, those distinguished friends of the slave from Boston. Mrs.
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.
It was the Abbé Duguerry, curé of the Madeleine, the first of the so-called hostages arrested in retaliation for the summary execution of General Duval, who had commanded one of the three columns that marched out of Paris the day before to attack the Versaillais. Both the curé of the Madeleine and his vicaire, the Abbé Lamazou, were that night arrested.
His brief address, upon that "war spirit of America which holds in bondage three million of his brethren," produced a profound sensation. At its conclusion the speaker was warmly greeted by Victor Hugo, the Abbe Duguerry, Emile de Girardin, the Pastor Coquerel, Richard Cobden, and every man of note in the Assembly.
The Assembly began to give signs of impatience, when very soon the train of officials made their appearance amid great applause. Victor Hugo led the way, followed by M. Duguerry, curé of the Madeleine, Elihu Burritt, and a host of others of less note. Victor Hugo took the chair as President of the Congress, supported by Vice-presidents from the several nations represented. Mr.
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