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 mission for inspecting the religious instruction of the lyceums of the diocese.

In 1854, during a voyage which he made to Rome with the Archbishop, the Pope conferred on him the title of Apostolic Prothonotary. Finally, after being named Titular Vicar-General of Paris, he became, in 1859, Bishop of Nancy.

A decree of the 10th of January, 1863, designed him for the archi-episcopal seat of Paris, where he was pre-*cognized the 16th of March, and installed the 21st of April of the same year.

On January 8th, 1864, he became Grand Almoner of the Emperor, and a decree of the following October called him to the Senate. He was a member of the Council of Public Instruction, and grand-officer of the Legion of Honor in 1868.

The moderate and conciliatory political rôle which Monseigneur Darboy endeavored to fill after his elevation to the archi-episcopacy, did not always succeed. The persistent refusal of the Pope to accord a cardinal's hat to the Archbishop of Paris was for a long time considered as a sign of a misunderstanding between them. Monseigneur Darboy, however, protested against the existence of anything of the kind in a pastoral letter, written on the fiftieth anniversary of the priesthood of Pius IX.

It is interesting to recall, à propos of the death of Monseigneur Darboy, what has been the fate of his predecessors who succeeded each other after the revolution of '89 to the Archi-episcopal Palace in Paris.

In 1793, Monseigneur de Juigué died on the scaffold.

In 1815, Cardinal Maury was obliged to take refuge in Rome.

In 1830, Monseigneur de Quelen was hunted by the populace, the Archi-episcopal Palace sacked, and after