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Stung by this institutional blow, Bailly subsequently absented himself from most Academy business, moving from Paris to nearby Chaillot in the mid-1770's. Utilizing a new observational technique, Bailly confirmed Fouchy’s theory while coupling his study of light intensities with determinations of the diameters of the satellites.
15, 1736; guillotined Nov. 12, 1793. Arrested in September Bailly was soon tried, found guilty, and condemned to the guillotine. While he did not explicitly racialize his theory, he did seek to appropriate Eastern cultural advances for Europe. His father also owned a house in Chaillot, a fashionable suburb of Paris. Fashionable Parisians (particularly women) had been flocking to Mesmer's "cures," which had acquired an immoral reputation.
He had a hand in drafting the cahier de doléances for the Parisian Third Estate, and topped the list of electors chosen as deputies to the Estates General. Neither threats nor ridicule could deter Bailly in this matter, as was to be expected from his unswerving adherence, at great personal risk, to what he considered to be the duties of a just and upright magistrate.
On the occasion of the arrest of Louis XVI., Bailly was obliged to disperse by force of arms the crowds that gathered at the Champ de Mars to demand the deposition of the king (July 17, 1791).
As mayor of Paris, he supported the National Constituent Assembly while ignoring or suppressing radical political demands. He had also shown greater promise than his competitors, Jeaurat and Messier, of significant theoretical researches.
Bailly approached the problem of inequalities in the motions of the four known satellites of Jupiter with Clairaut’s lunar theory in mind.
The case had a great public impact, however, and Mesmer left Paris the following year.
Bailly gained even greater celebrity in a second case, concerning the poor hospital (Hôtel-Dieu) in Paris. He was reelected for a second term in August 1790, but in this second year, he lost popularity, particularly after the unfortunate massacre of the Champ-de-Mars.
Such was his fame and esteem that, when the Third Estate declared itself to be the National Assembly of France, on June 17, 1789, Bailly was chosen to serve as its first president. His chief work as an astronomer was Essai sur la thiorie des satellites de Jupiter (1766), an expansion of a memoir presented to the Academy of Sciences in 1763, which showed much original power; and it was followed up in 1771 by a noteworthy dissertation Sur les inegalites de la lumi'ere des satellites de Jupiter.
The Occult Roots of Nazism: Secret Aryan Cults and Their Influence on Nazi Ideology. This prestige was augmented by two events, which secured his standing as a leading philosophe and provided the springboard for his future revolutionary career. Blavatsky was a founder of Theosophy, a mystical society whose credo was spelled out in her book The Secret Doctrine (1888).
Three reports submitted between 1786 and 1788 deplored the miserable conditions existing at the hospital and suggested means for their correction.
It was chiefly acclaim through these reports that catapulted Bailly into public affairs at the beginning of the French Revolution; the movement culminated on 15 July 1789 in his unanimous proclamation as the first mayor of Paris.
In the space and time in between, he managed to embody both the Enlightenment scientific establishment and the French revolutionary process: along with Condorcet, his arch-rival at the Academy of Sciences, he was one of the few revolutionaries to have first gained notoriety as a philosophe. Elected the first mayor of Paris by acclamation, following the fall of the Bastille, Bailly's popularity gradually diminished until vanishing completely after the infamous "massacre" of July 17, 1791.