Editing Jean Sylvain Bailly (section)

== Execution ==
[[File:Death of Bailly.jpg|thumb|upright=1.3|Bailly on the guillotine]]
In July 1793, Bailly left Nantes to join his friend [[Pierre-Simon Laplace]] at [[Melun]], but was recognized there and arrested. On 14 October, he was pressed to [[Marie Antoinette#1793: "Widow Capet," Trial, and Death|testify against Marie Antoinette]] but refused. On 10 November 1793, he was brought before the [[Revolutionary Tribunal]] in Paris, speedily tried, and sentenced to death the next day. On 12 November 1793, he was guillotined at the [[Champ de Mars]], a site selected symbolically as the location of his betrayal of the republican movement. The little red flag he had used to give the order to fire on the crowds on the Champs de Mars was tied to the cart that took him to his death, and burned in front of him before he was executed.<ref name="Aykroyd2014">{{cite book|author=W. R. Aykroyd|title=Three Philosophers: Lavoisier, Priestley and Cavendish|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=bia0BQAAQBAJ&pg=PA168|date= 2014|publisher=[[Elsevier Science]]|isbn=978-1-4831-9445-5|page=159}}</ref> It was the revival of this event as a part of republican heritage after 10 August 1792, as well as a campaign of municipal persecution led by Marat, that ultimately resulted in Bailly's execution, as well as that of "many of his colleagues".<ref name = "Andress" />{{rp|213}} Before his death, he was forced to endure the freezing rain and the insults of a howling mob. When a scoffer shouted, ''"Tu trembles, Bailly?"'' ("Do you tremble, Bailly?"), he responded, ''"Oui, mais c'est seulement de froid"'' ("Yes, but it is only the cold").{{citation needed|date=June 2021}}