236 BAILLY. 



having placed this flag at the head of the column, as the 

 law commands, but in such a position, that the public on 

 whom the column was advancing could not see it; for 

 having made the armed force enter the Champ de Mars, 

 by all the gates on the side towards the town, a manoeuvre 

 that seemed rather intended to surround the multitude, 

 than to disperse it ; for having ordered the National 

 Guard to load their arms, even on the Place de Greve ; 

 for having made the guard fire before the three required 

 summonses were made, and fire upon the people around 

 the altar, whilst the stones and the pistol shot, which were 

 assigned as the motive for the sanguinary order, came 

 from the steps and benches ; for allowing some people 

 who were endeavouring to escape on the side towards 

 1 Ecole Militaire, and others who had actually jumped 

 into the Seine, to be pursued, shot, and bayonetted. 



It results clearly from one of Bailly s publications, 

 from his answers to the questions put to him by the Pres 

 ident of the Revolutionary Tribunal, from the writings of 

 the day : 



That the Mayor of Paris gave no order for the troops 

 to be collected on the 17th of July; that he had had no 

 conference on that day with the military authority ; that 

 if any arrangements, culpable and contrary to law were 

 adopted, as to the situation of the cavalry, of the red flag, 

 and of the Municipal Body, in the column marching on 

 the Champ de Mars, they could not without injustice be 

 imputed to him ; that Bailly was not aware of the Na 

 tional Guard having loaded their muskets with ball be 

 fore quitting the square of the Hotel de Ville ; that he 

 was not aware even of the existence of the red flag, 

 with whose small dimensions he had been so severely 

 reproached ; that the National Guard fired without his 



