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 *wards entirely destroyed. The persecution of this prelate lasted several years.

His successor, Monseigneur Affre, fell on the barricade of the Faubourg Saint-Antoine, June 24th, 1848.

Monseigneur Sibour, who succeeded him, was assassinated by Verger in 1857.

Finally, after the untroubled episcopate of Cardinal Morlot, Monseigneur Darboy was arrested as a hostage and murdered by the insurrection.

Thus, in the same century, one single sovereign has died on his regal bed, and only three out of all the archbishops have died a natural death.

Monseigneur Duguerry, curé of the Madeleine, was struck by two balls; one entered the cheek under the right eye, the other passed through the lungs and came out behind the right shoulder.

The Abbé Duguerry was born in Lyons in 1797, and was the son of a wood merchant. At his death he was seventy-four years of age.

After having commenced his studies at the seminary of his native city, he went to finish them at the College of Villefranche, but he was not ordained priest by dispensation until 1820.

During four years he was professor of philosophy, theology, and eloquence, and finally became preacher.

In 1824 he preached at Lyons; in 1825 and 1826 at Paris. The following year he was named almoner of the 6th regiment of the Royal Guard by Charles X. He followed his regiment to Orleans, to Rouen, and Paris, until 1830.

In 1828, he pronounced at Orleans a discourse in eulogy of Joan of Arc, which twenty-eight years later (1856) he was called upon to repeat.

From 1830 to 1839 he continued exclusively his course of predication. In 1840 he made a voyage to Rome. On