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off daily, it was only by the substitution of the following 
words: “Esplanade du Champ de Mars,” for the usual 
designation of “ Place de la Revolution.” Now, the Rey- 
olutionary Tribunal has deserved many anathemas, but 
I never remarked its being reproached with not having 
known how to enforce obedience. 
I felt myself relieved from an immense weight, Gen- 
tlemen, when I could dispel from my thoughts the image 
of a melancholy march on foot of two hours, because 
with it there disappeared two hours of corporeal ill-usage, 
which, according to those same accounts, our virtuous 
colleague must have endured from the Conciergerie to 
the Champ de Mars. | 
An illustrious writer asserts that they conducted Bailly 
to the Place de la Revolution, that the scaffold there was 
taken to pieces on the multitude demanding it, and that 
the victim was then led to the Champ de Mars. This 
relation is not correct. The sentence expressed in pos- 
itive terms, that, as an exception, the Square of the Rev- 
olution was not to be the scene of Bailly’s execution. 
The procession went direct to the place designated. 
The historian already quoted affirms that the scaffold 
on being put up again on the bank of the Seine was 
erected on a heap of rubbish; that this operation lasted 
some hours, and that Bailly meanwhile was drawn round 
the Champ de Mars several times. 
These promenades are imaginary. Those men who on 
the arrival of the lugubrious procession vociferated that 
the presence of the old Mayor of Paris would soil the 
Champ de la Fédération, could not the next minute foree 
him to make the circuit of it. In fact, the illustrious victim 
remained in the road. The cruel idea, so knowingly at- 
tributed to the actors of those hideous scenes, to raise the 
