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Updated: June 28, 2025
The National Assembly had already met; the president informed it that M. Bailly, the mayor of Paris, was come to acquaint them that the king and his family had been carried off during the night from the Tuileries by some enemies of the nation; the Assembly, who were already individually aware of this fact, listened to the communication with imposing gravity.
During several days after the king's flight, both Bailly and La Fayette were in personal danger. The National Assembly had often to look to their safety.
He came out of the Vier Marchi into La Grande Rue, along the stream called the Fauxbie flowing through it, till he passed under the archway of the Vier Prison, making towards the place where the child had snatched the hat from the head of the Bailly. Presently the door of a cottage opened, and the child came out, followed by her mother.
Marie Antoinette pressed the pretty boy to herself, and kissed his lips. Just then an officer entered and announced General Lafayette and Bailly, the mayor of Paris. "Mamma," whispered the prince, as the two gentlemen entered " mamma, that is the general that was at Versailles, then. I can never be kind to him, for he belongs to the bad men." "Hush! my child-hush!" whispered the queen.
Thus, contrary to general opinion, the heat of the body which illuminates us would form only a very small part of that whose propitious influence we feel. This idea was developed with ability and great eloquence in the Memoirs of the Academy, in the Epoques sur la Nature of Buffon, in the letters from Bailly to Voltaire upon the Origin of the Sciences and upon the Atlantide.
The wars of the Middle Ages were waged chiefly concerning legal claims. The end of the period found all Europe full of privileged territories, persons, or corporations. Privileges and rights were regarded as property. Modern struggles have been for ideas, and among the most cherished of these have been equality and uniformity. Bailly, ii. 276. Horn, 258. Bois-Guillebert, 207.
Let us surmount our repugnance, although a reasonable one; let us cast a firm look on the sink where the unworthy calumnies were manufactured, of which Bailly was for some time the object. Several years before our first revolution, a native of Neufchatel quitted his mountains, traversed the Jura, and lighted upon Paris.
The death of the Dauphin happened on the 4th of June. As soon as the assembly of the Third Estate were informed of it, they charged the President, I quote the very words, "to report to their majesties the deep grief with which this news had penetrated the Communes." A deputation of twenty members, having Bailly at their head, was received on the 6th.
The next morning Bailly appeared before the Assembly to report to them the triumph of the law. He displayed the heartfelt sorrow of his mind, and the masculine energy that formed part of his duty. "The conspiracy had been formed," said he; "it was necessary to employ force, and severe punishment has overtaken the crime."
It is there that, throwing off the grave exterior which he wore in public, he gave himself up to a peaceful and amiable gayety." The resemblance between Bailly and Lacaille goes no farther. Bailly informs us that the great astronomer proclaimed truth on all occasions, without disquieting himself as to whom it might wound.
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