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from page 231 on, and all of the second were evidently written 

 after the first week in February, 1792, The proof is found on 

 page 231. Here Bailly quotes from the pamphlet of Camilla 

 Desmoulins entitled, J.-P. Brissot desmasque par Camille Des- 

 moulins} The pamphlet bears upon the first page the date of 

 writing: Paris, cc i fevr. I'an je, et non 40. de notre ere, en 

 depit du decret Ramond. It is not likely that this pamphlet 

 reached Bailly at Nantes before the second week in February. 

 As we know that page 358 was written February 23, 1792,^ it 

 follows that the pages intervening between 231 and 358 must 

 have been written, at the outside, in the two weeks preceding 

 that date. It is probable, then, that the first two hundred and 

 thirty pages of volume one were written during the latter part of 

 January and the first part of February, 1792. 



The part of the Memoir cs between volume I, page 358, and 

 volume II, page 303, was written between February -23 and 

 June 14, 1792.^ Pages 303 to 362 of the second volume must 

 have been written in the same month of June, judging from an 

 allusion on page 362,* and it is highly probable that the break- 

 ing off of the Memoires abruptly at page 409 of volume II was 

 due to the news of the invasion of the Tuileries on June 20, 



^As the reference to the pamphlet of Desmoulins is found in a foot-note, 

 it is possible, without doubt, that it may have been appended later than 

 February, 1792, and not at the time that the text was written, but it seems 

 highly probable that Bailly had the pamphlet before him when he wrote the 

 text. The reasons for my belief are (1) the pamphlet could easily have 

 reached him from Paris the second week in February; (2) it produced a 

 sensation and it is highly probable that he received a copy at once; (3) the 

 matter referred to entered more naturally into a foot-note than into the text; 

 (4) he could have written without difficulty the pages between 231 and 358 

 after receiving the pamphlet and before February 23. 



2 " Si M. Barr^re eut €x.€ dcout^, bien des objets que le temps et les €v€n- 

 emens ont amends n'auraient pas €te decretes, la revolution aurait dtd moins 

 complete; mis il nous aurait sauv€ de I'anarchie qui a expose et qui expose 

 encore la constitution. {Aujourd' hui 2j fevrier //p^)." Memoires de 

 Bailly, I, p. 358. 



8 "Ce voeu, jusqu'au moment oi j'ecris, a €\.€ rempli (14 juin 1792)." 

 Ibid., I, p. 303. 



* " Iv'Assembl^e nationale fit, le 9 octobre, un decret provisoire, en 28 

 articles; elle institua les notables; elle r^gla que les procedures anciennes 

 faites jusqu'alors subsisteraient, mais que toutes celles qui seraient faites 

 apr^s le ddcret, le seraient suivant les nouvelles formes. II fallut ^lire des 

 notables, il fallut que les juges apprissent un nouveau metier: pendant ce 



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