Editing Jean Sylvain Bailly (section)

=== Maintaining order ===
Jean Sylvain Bailly sought to be in full control of his administration as the mayor of Paris. He envisioned being in a position where all answered to him, and only his orders were to be followed. Creating a centralized government within Paris was his plan, however Parisians were not keen with this vision.<ref name="Brucker" />{{rp|38}} His views are depicted in the following passage of his ''Mémoires:''

<blockquote>"... in the executive assembly, the mayor who presides over it is a specific officer of the commune. This Assembly possesses the totality of power, but its chief is its agent, its executive authority, who should be charged with the execution of its orders and the maintenance of its regulations. Moreover, since he is at the head of the administration, he understands all of its branches and has all of its strings in his hands. He is in a better position to detect the difficulties and the dangers than the other members who do not have the same information. If the law does not demand it, reason dictates that no important step be taken and no important questions be decided in his absence, unless he be allowed at least to make observations..."<ref name=":3">{{Cite book|title=Mémoires D'un Témoin de la Révolution, ou Journal.|last=Bailly|first=Jean Sylvain|publisher=Baudouin frères.|year=1821|location=Paris|pages=106–107}}</ref></blockquote>