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 the Diplomatic Corps, the Magistrates, Marshal de MacMahon Duc de Magenta, Marshal Canrobert, several admirals, a large number of army and navy officers, the Institute and the University, all assisted at this imposing ceremony.

At eleven o'clock the funeral procession, having left the Rue de Grenelle at ten, arrived at Notre-Dame. M. Darboy, brother of the venerable prelate, was chief mourner, and was followed by the secretaries of the archbishops and the hostages who had escaped the massacre ordained by the Commune.

A large and mournful crowd filled the streets as the procession passed. A hearse, drawn by six horses, contained the remains of Mgr. Darboy; another followed, with those of Mgr. Surat.

The procession having reached the Place du Parvis-Notre-Dame, the Canons of the Church of Paris, the Curates of the Diocese of Paris, preceded by the cross of the Chapter, advanced to receive the corpse of the Archbishop. Mgr. Allouvry, former bishop of Pamiers, then celebrated the divine office.

At three o'clock, after the Vespers for the Dead, the body of Monseigneur Darboy was deposited in the vault of the Archbishops of Paris.

The Abbé Duguerry was buried at the Madeleine on the following Friday. His body had been taken to Notre-Dame, owing to a request of the National Assembly, whose members wished to unite in one the funeral honors of all the victims of the horrible massacre committed at La Roquette.

Happily retribution was not long in overtaking the majority of the authors of these terrible crimes. Every day large convoys of prisoners succeeded each other on the route to Versailles, their number finally amounting to over 30,000 men and women; they were first directed to