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 manceuvre 
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 Gréve; 
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 
YEcole 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 
