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make of Bailly a perfectly rational being, a man abso 

 lutely faultless ; I, although his admirer, I resign myself 

 to admit that in a laborious life, strewed with so many 

 rocks, he committed the horrible crime, unpardonable let 

 it be called, of having accepted from the Commune a 

 livery of gaudy colours. 



Bailly figured in the events of the month of October 

 1789, only by the unsuccessful efforts he made at Paris, 

 to arrange with Lafayette how to prevent a great crowd 

 of women from going to Versailles. When this crowd, 

 considerably increased, returned on the 6th October very 

 tumultuously escorting the carriages of the royal family, 

 Bailly harangued the king at the Barriere de la Confer 

 ence. Three days after, he also complimented the Queen 

 at the Tuileries in the name of the Municipal Council. 



On retiring from the National Assembly, which he 

 then called a Cavern of Anthropophagi, Lally Tollendal 

 published a letter in which he found bitter fault with 

 Bailly on account of these discourses. Lally was angry, 

 recollecting that the day when the king reentered his 

 capital as a prisoner, surrounded by a very disrespectful 

 crowd, and preceded by the heads of his body-guards, 

 had appeared to Bailly a fine day ! 



If the two heads had been in the procession, Bailly 

 becomes inexcusable ; but the two epochs, or rather hours 

 (to speak more correctly), have been confounded ; the 

 wretched men, who after a conflict with the body-guard, 

 brought their barbarous trophies to Paris, left Versailles 

 in the morning ; they were arrested and imprisoned, by 

 order of the municipality, as soon as they had entered 

 the barriers of the capital. Thus the hideous circum 

 stance reported by Lally was the dream of a wild imagi 

 nation. 



