194 BAILLY. 



and will show, besides, how scrupulously Bailly registered 

 all that could shed honour on our country. 



I will take the first fact from the military annals ; a 

 grenadier of the French Guard saves his commanding 

 officer's life, although the people thought that they had 

 great reason of complaint against him. " Grenadier, what 

 is your name ? " exclaimed the Duke de Chatelet, full of 

 gratitude. The soldier replied, " Colonel, my name is 

 that of all my comrades." 



I will borrow the second fact from the civil annals : 

 Stephen de Lariviere, one of the electors of Paris, had 

 gone on the 20th of July, to fetch Berthier de Sauvigny, 

 who had been fatally arrested at Compiegne, on the false 

 report that the Assembly of the Town Hall wished to 

 prosecute him as intendant of the army, by which a few 

 days before the capital had been surrounded. The jour- 

 ney was performed in an open cabriolet, amidst the in- 

 sults of a misled population, who imputed to the prisoner 

 the scarcity and bad quality of the bread. Twenty times, 

 guns, pistols, sabres, would have put an end to Berthier's 

 life, if, twenty times, the member of the Commune of 

 Paris had not voluntarily covered him with his body. 

 When they reached the streets of the capital, the cabrio- 

 let had to penetrate through an immense and compact 

 crowd, whose exasperation bordered on delirium, and 

 who evidently wished to perpetrate the utmost extremi- 

 ties ; not knowing which of the two travellers was the 

 Intendant of Paris, they betook themselves to crying 

 out, " let the prisoner take off his hat ! " Berthier obeyed, 

 but Lariviere uncovered his head also at the same 

 instant. 



All parties would gain by the production of a work, 

 that I desire to see most earnestly. For my part, I ac- 



