BAILLY.

Introduction 91

Infancy of Bailly.—­His Youth.—­His Literary Essays.—­His
Mathematical Studies 93

Bailly becomes the Pupil of Lacaille.—­He is associated
with him in his Astronomical Labours 97

Bailly a Member of the Academy of Sciences.—­His Researches on Jupiter’s Satellites 103

Bailly’s Literary Works.—­His Biographies of Charles V.—­of
Leibnitz—­of Peter Corneille—­of Moliere 106

Debates relative to the Post of Perpetual Secretary of
the Academy of Sciences 110

History of Astronomy.—­Letters on the Atlantis of Plato
and on the Ancient History of Asia 114

First Interview of Bailly with Franklin.—­His Entrance into the French Academy in 1783.—­His Reception.—­Discourse.—­His Rupture with Buffon 121

Report on Animal Magnetism 127

Election of Bailly into the Academy of Inscriptions 155

Report on the Hospitals 157

Report on the Slaughter-Houses 165

Biographies of Cook and of Gresset 167

Assembly of the Notables.—­Bailly is named First Deputy of Paris; and soon after Dean or Senior of the Deputies of the Communes 169

Bailly becomes Mayor of Paris.—­Scarcity.—­Marat declares
himself inimical to the Mayor.—­Events of the 6th of October 179

A Glance at the Posthumous Memoir of Bailly 193

Examination of Bailly’s Administration as Mayor 195

The King’s Flight.—­Events on the Champ de Mars 206

Bailly quits the Mayoralty the 12th of November, 1791.—­The Eschevins.—­Examination of the Reproaches that might be addressed to the Mayor 211

Bailly’s Journey from Paris to Nantes, and then from Nantes to
Melun.—­His Arrest in this last Town.—­He is transferred to Paris 217

Bailly is called as a Witness in the Trial of the Queen.—­His own Trial before the Revolutionary Tribunal.—­His Condemnation to Death.—­His Execution.—­Imaginary Details added by ill-informed Historians to what that odious and frightful Event already presented 225

Portrait of Bailly.—­His Wife 250

HERSCHEL.