192 BAILLY. 
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 unsuecessful 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 Confér- 
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 reéntered 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 cireum- 
stance reported by Lally was the dream of a wild imagi- 
nation. 
