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HIS ADMINISTRATION AS MAYOR. 197 
days after the taking of the fortress. It is really inex- 
cusable not to have compared the two dates, by which 
these errors would have been avoided. 
Many persons very little acquainted with contempo- 
raneous history, fancy that during the whole duration of 
Bailly’s administration, Paris was quite a cut-throat place. 
That is a romance; the following is the truth :— 
Bailly was Mayor during two years and four months. 
In that time there occurred four political assassinations ; 
those of Foulon and of Berthier de Sauvigny, his son-in- 
law, at the Hotel de Ville; that of M. Durocher, a re- 
spectable officer of the gendarmerie, killed at Chaillot, by 
a musket-shot, in August, 1789; and that of a baker 
massacred in a riot in the month of October of the same 
year. Ido not speak of the assassination of two unfor- 
tunate men on the Champ de Mars in July, 1791, as that 
deplorable fact must be considered separately. 
The individuals guilty of the assassination of the baker 
were seized, condemned to death, and executed. The 
family of the unfortunate victim became the object of 
the anxious care of all the authorities, and obtained a 
pension. 
The death of M. Durocher was attributed to some 
Swiss soldiers who had revolted. 
The horrible and ever to be deplored assassinations 
of Foulon and of Berthier, are among those misfortunes 
which, under certain given circumstances, no human 
power could prevent. 
In times of scarcity, a slight word, either true or un- 
founded, suffices to create a terrible commotion. 
Réveillon is made to say, that a workman can live 
upon fifteen sous per diem, and behold his manufactory 
destroyed from top to bottom. i 
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