202 } BAILLY. 
have not abandoned their standards.” There were finally 
six hundred Swiss Guards in Paris, deserters from their 
regiments ; for, let us speak freely, the celebrated monu- 
ment of Lucerne will not prevent the Swiss themselves 
from being recognized by impartial and intelligent histo- 
rians, as having experienced the revolutionary fever. 
Those who, with such poor means of repression, flat- 
tered themselves that they could entirely prevent any — 
disorder, in a town of seven or eight hundred thousand 
inhabitants in exasperation, must have been very blind. 
Those, on the other hand, who attempt to throw the re- 
sponsibility of the disorders on Bailly, would prove by 
this alone, that good people should always keep aloof 
from public affairs during a revolution. 
The administrator, a being of modern creation, now 
declares, with the most ludicrous self-sufficiency, that 
Bailly was not equal to the functions of a Mayor of Paris. 
It is, he says, by undeserved favour that his statue has 
been placed on the facade of the Hotel de Ville. During 
his magistracy, Bailly did not create any large square in 
the capital, he did not open out any large streets, he ele- 
vated no splendid monument; Bailly would therefore 
have done better had he remained an astronomer or eru- 
dite scholar. 
The enumeration of all the public erections that Bailly 
did not execute is correct. It might also have been 
added, that far from devoting the municipal funds to 
building, he had the vast and threatening castle of the 
Bastille demolished down to its very foundations ;° but 
this would not deprive Bailly of the honour of having 
been one of the most enlightened magistrates that the 
city of Paris could boast. 
Bailly did not enlarge. any street, did not erect any 
