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| | JOSEPH ALEXIS BAILLY (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12) |
 | | Bailly was born in Paris on January 21, 1823, the son of Joseph Philider Bailly, maker of fine furniture. |
 | | In 1848, parlous times in French history, Joseph A. Bailly was a member of the Garde Mobile unit, but shot his captain, and was forced to flee the country, eventually reaching New Orleans, where there was a large French Quarter, still famous today. |
 | | He did work there and in Buenos Aires and New York City before settling in Philadelphia with his wife, Louisa, a French lady whom he married in 1850. |
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