BAILLY DE SURCY, EMMANUEL-JOSEPH. - French Catholic publicist and organizer, father of the two Assumptionists Emmanuel and Vincent de Paul (v.) and of Marie B. (1837-1906), superior general of the Sisters of St Clotilde, d. in Paris on 12 Apr. 1861.
In 1819 he founded the boarding school “Bailly,” attended also by C. Baudelaire and F. Ozanam. As president of the Congregation of St Clotilde he founded the “Société des études littéraires,” absorbed in 1825 by the “Société des bonnes études,” helped found the “Société catholique des bons livres,” of which he later became director, and then founded the “Association pour la défense de la religion catholique,” from which emerged in 1829 the journal Le Correspondant, edited by B.; in 1831 this was succeeded by the Revue européenne, also edited by him, which in turn was absorbed in 1836 by L’Université catholique. In 1831 he had founded the Tribune catholique, which was succeeded by L’Univers de la France.
B. was the creator and first president of the “Conferences of St Vincent de Paul,” begun in 1833 through the “Société des bonnes études,” which later became of worldwide importance.