BAILLY DE SURCY, EMMANUEL-JOSEPH. - French Catholic publicist and organizer, father of the two Assumptionists Emmanuele and Vincent de Paul (v.) and of Marie B. (1837-1906), superior general of the Sisters of S. Clotilde; he died in Paris on 12 April 1861.
In 1819 he founded the “Bailly” boarding school, attended also by C. Baudelaire and F. Ozanam. As president of the Congregation of S. Clotilde, he founded the “Société des études littéraires,” absorbed in 1825 by the “Société des
bonnes études”; he contributed to the foundation of the “Société catholique des bons livres,” of which he later became director; he then founded the “Association pour la défense de la religion catholique,” from which the journal Le Correspondant emerged in 1829, directed by B.; it was succeeded in 1831 by the Revue européenne, likewise directed by him, absorbed in 1836 by l'Université catholique. In 1831 he had founded the Tribune catholique, succeeded by L'Univers, where L. Veuillot made his first beginnings in 1842.
B. was the founder and first president of the “Conferences of S. Vincenzo de' Paoli,” begun in 1833 through the “Société des bonnes études,” which later became of worldwide importance.