The community was named after Catholic Archbishop Georges Darboy, who was martyred during the Franco-Prussian War.
Darboy was the author of a number of works, of which the most important are a Vie de St Thomas Becket (1859), a translation of the works of St Denis the Areopagite, and a translation of the Imitation of Christ.
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Théophile Charles Gilles Ferré (Paris, May 6, 1846 – Satory, November 1871) was one of the members of the Paris Commune, who authorized the execution of Georges Darboy, the archbishop of Paris, and five other hostages, on 24 May, 1871.