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At the beginning of 1820 the newspapers announced the death of M. Myriel, Bishop of D----, surnamed "Monseigneur Bienvenu," who had died in the odor of sanctity at the age of eighty-two.
The Bishop of D---- to supply here a detail which the papers omitted--had been blind for many years before his death, and content to be blind, as his sister was beside him.