The Civil War in Paris: arrest of the Archbishop by the Communists, 1871. Depiction of '...the arrest of Monseigneur the Archbishop of Paris, with his two Grand Vicars, by order of the revolutionary dictators'. Georges Darboy (1813-1871) was among a group of prominent hostages executed as the Paris Commune of 1871 was about to be overthrown. From "Illustrated London News", 1871.

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