The Memoir es de Bailly 17 



of the Memoir cs superfluous for the study of the electoral as- 

 sembly; the Mcmoires correct the Proces-vcrbal, or supplement 

 it, on several important points. The Proces-verbal states that 

 the decree of the assembly concerning the freedom of the press — 

 apropos of the suppression of Mirabeau's newspaper by the gov- 

 ernment — was carried unanimously. Bailly claims in his Me- 

 nioires that this is not true, that when the nays were called for 

 Marmontel had the courage to stand up alone. He attributes 

 his failure to be elected to the States General to the discontent 

 of the assembly at this act.^ The discussion of the question of 

 the eligibility of persons receiving pensions and of nobles and 

 clergymen as representatives of the Third Estate can not be 

 nndprstood from the Proces-vcrbal alone. The election of the 

 Abbe Sieyes as a representative was made possible by the failure 

 of Bailly as secretary to record the vote of the assembly exclud- 

 ing ecclesiastics from the list of possible candidates.- The inci- 

 dent is an important one and the record of it is found in the 

 Mcmoires alone. 



On the 24th of May, Bailly, with the other representatives of 

 the Third Estate, went to Versailles. The remaining pages of 

 volume I (68-395) ^^*i the first eleven pages of the second vol- 

 ume deal Avitli the incidents at Versailles, up to the time of 

 Bailly's acclamation as mayor of Paris. The first five pages 

 treating of this period (I, pp. 68-72) are drawn from memory, 

 and while containing nothing of first importance — the dress of 

 the deputies, the reception by the king, meeting with the Abbe 



Bailly upon the Proces-verbal is to collate the two works line by line. One 

 illustration will be sufficient: 



Prods-verbal, I, p. 3. Mhnoires de Bailly, I, p. 20. 



La matiere a ete mise en d^liber- La matiere mise en deliberation, 



ation; et la tres-grande pluralite a- la tres-grande plurality fut' d'avis 



yant ^t^ d'avis que I'Asseniblee ne que I'assembl^a ne pouvait avoir 



pouvait avoir d'autres officiers que d'autres officiers que ceux qu'elle 



ceux qu'elle aurait elus librement. aurait dlus librement. M. le pro- 



M. le procureur du roi a requis la coureur du roi requit la retraite des 



retraite de MM. les officiers du officiers du Ch§.telet, qui se sont en 



Chatelet, lesquels se sont tons effec- effect retires ayant M. le lieutenant 



tivemen*^ retires, ayant M. le lieu- civil ^ leur tete* 

 tenant civil a leur tete. 



"^Mhnoires de Bailly, I, pp. 42, 43. 



^Ibid., I, pp. 48-51, 59-64. 



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