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[BAILLY JEAN-SYLVAIN]: (1736-1793) - [BAILLY JEAN-SYLVAIN]: (1736-1793) French Mathematician, Astronomer and the first Mayor of the city of Paris in 1789, the year of the Storm of the Bastille. He refused to vote in favour of the death sentence on Marie Antoinette´s trial. Guillotined for his participation in the Champ de Mars massacre. A very interesting letter signed ` L.S. Veuve Bailly´ (“L.S. Widow of Bailly”), Bailly´s widow, and is addressed to Charles Maurice de Talleyrand Périgord (1754-1838) French Diplomat and Statesman. Prime Minister of France July-September 1815. Two pages, 4to, Paris, 8 th December 1796, to Talleyrand Périgord, in French. Bailly´s widow states ` Digne représentant, Je sais ce que vous avez fait pour moi, et sans doute j'en suis pénétrée de la plus vive reconnaissance mais ce que vous avez dit de mon mari, le silence de votre auguste assemblée tant que vous avez parlé, voilà ce qui me ravit. Mes forces actuelles ne me suffisent pas pour vous remercier au gré de mon cœur Puissiez-vous, respectable représentant, vous et les vôtres être aussi heureux que je suis malheureuse. Qu'ai-je dit? Malheureuse! Je ne le suis plus tant puisque vous avez daigné vous intéresser à mon sort, puisque votre auguste assemblée a réintégré la mémoire de mon époux irréprochable. Pour mettre le comble à vos généreux procédés, permettez-moi d'espérer que vous voudrez bien me communiquer votre belle motion, elle parle des revus de mon mari, ce titre ne peut m'être étranger´ ( Translation: “ Dignified representative, I know what you have done for me, and no doubt I am filled with the deepest gratitude for it, but what you said of my husband, the silence of your august assembly when you spoke, that is what delights me. My present forces are not enough for me to thank you at the pleasure of my heart. May you, respectable representative, you and yours be as happy as I am unhappy. What did I say? Unhappy! I am no longer so since you have deigned to take an interest in my fate, since your august assembly has reinstated the memory of my irreproachable husband. To top off your generous procedures, allow me to hope that you will be good enough to communicate your splendid motion to me, it speaks of my husband's reviews, this title cannot be foreign to me”. Bailly´s widow refers to Talleyrand´s speech at the Institute, rehabilitating Bailly. Small minor age wear, with two very small holes, traces of former staple to the left border, not affecting the text or signature. G   It has been reported by François Arago (1786-1853) that Bailly married a close friend of his mother, already widow. And who admired Bailly.   Talleyrand left Paris for England in 1792, at the beginning of the September massacres. The National Convention issued a warrant for his arrest few months later. In 1794 he was forced to leave England by Prime Minister Pitt´s expulsion order and went to the United States as neutral country. Talleyrand only returned to France six years later, in September 1796, less than three months before the present letter was written. Few months later, he became Foreign Minister in July 1797.