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going from Versailles to Chaillot, after the close of the 
session, leaned half his body out of his carriage door, 
and announced the happy tidings with loud exclamations 
to all whom he met on the road. At Sévres, it is from 
himself that I borrow the anecdote, he did not see with- 
out painful surprise that his communication was received 
with the most complete indifference by a group of sol- 
diers assembled before the barrack door; Bailly laughed 
much on afterwards learning that this was a party of 
Swiss soldiers, who did not understand a word he said. 
Happy the actors in a great revolution, in whose 
conduct we find nothing to reprehend until after having 
entered into so minute an analysis of their public and 
private conduct. 
BAILLY’S JOURNEY FROM PARIS TO NANTES, AND THEN 
FROM NANTES TO MELUN.—HIS ARREST IN THE LAST 
TOWN.—HE IS TRANSFERRED TO PARIS. 
After having quitted the Mayorality of Paris, Bailly 
retired to Chaillot, where he hoped again to find happi- 
ness in study; but upwards of two years passed amidst 
the storms of public life had deeply injured his health; 
it was therefore requisite to obey the advice of physi- 
cians, and undertake a journey. About the middle of 
June, 1792, Bailly quitted the capital, made some excur- 
sions in the neighbouring departments, went to Niort to 
visit his old colleague and friend, M. de Lapparent, and 
soon after went on far as Nantes, where the due influ- 
ence of another friend, M. Gelée de Prémion, seemed to 
promise him protection and tranquillity. Determined to 
establish himself in this last town, Bailly and his wife 
took a small lodging in the house of some distinguished 
people, who could understand and appreciate them. 
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