AFFRE, DENIS AUGUSTE:
Archbishop of Paris; b. at St. Rome de Tarn (55 m. n.w. of Montpellier),
Aveyron, France, Sept. 27, 1793; d. at Paris June 27, 1848. He studied
at the Seminary of St. Sulpice and taught theology there after having been
ordained priest (1818); he became vicar-general of the diocese of Luçon
1821, of Amiens 1823, of Paris 1834, archbishop of Paris 1840. As archbishop
he was zealous and faithful, and lost his life in the performance of duty.
During the revolution of 1848, hoping to induce the insurgents to lay down
their arms, he mounted a barricade at the Faubourg St. Antoine and attempted
to address the mob, but had hardly begun to speak when he was struck by
a musket ball and mortally wounded. He was one of the founders of La
France chrétienne (1820), wrote much for it and other periodicals,
and published several treatises of value on educational,. historical, and
religious subjects.
BIBLIOGRA PHY: P. M. Cruice, Vie de D. A. Affre, Paris, 1849
(abridged, 1850); E. Castan, Histoire de la vie et de la mort de Mgr.
D. A. Affre, ib. 1855.