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Updated: June 7, 2025

I have not the same hardihood, I only wished to remark that Bailly had to combat at once both the spontaneous effervescence of the multitude, and the intrigues of a crowd of secret agents, who distributed money with a liberal hand. Some day, said our colleague, the infernal genius who directed those intrigues and le bailleur de fonds will be known.

François Arago - Biographies of Distinguished Scientific Men : First Series