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after all, this or that qualification of this monstrous trial ? 

 in the judgment of any man of feeling, never did Bailly 

 prove himself more noble, more courageous, more worthy, 

 than in this difficult situation. 



Bailly appeared again before the Revolutionary Tri- 

 bunal, and this time as the accused, the 10th of Novem- 

 ber 1793. The accusation bore chiefly on the pretended 

 participation of the Mayor of Paris in the escape of Louis 

 XVI. and his family, and in the catastrophe that occurred 

 in the Champ de Mars. 



If any thing in the world appeared evident, even in 

 1793, even before the detailed revelations of the persons 

 who took a more or less direct part in the event, it is, 

 that Bailly did not facilitate the departure of the royal 

 family ; it is that, in proportion to the suspicions that 

 reached him, he did all that was in his power to prevent 

 their departure ; it is, that the President of the sitting of 

 the Jeu de Paume had not, and could never have had in 

 any case, an intention of going to join the fugitive family 

 in a strange country ; it is that, finally, any act emanating 

 from a public authority in which such expressions as the 

 following could be found : " The deep wickedness of 



Bailly Bailly thirsted for the people's blood ! " 



must have excited the disgust and indignation of good 

 men, whatever might be their political opinions. 



The accusation, as far as it regarded the murderous 

 fusillade on the Champ de Mars, had more weight ; this 

 event had as counterpoises, the 10th of August and the 

 31st of May; La Fayette says in his memoirs, that those 

 two days were a retaliation. It- is at least certain that 

 the terrible scenes of the 17th of July cost Bailly his life ; 

 they left deep impressions in people's minds, which were 

 still perceptible after the revolution of 1830, and which, 



