Jean Sylvain Bailly (1736-1793). French politician, scientist and academic. Mayor of Paris (1789-1791). Elected on 12 May 1789, first deputy of the Third Estate of Paris to the Estates General. President of the National Assembly (17 June to 3 July 1798). Called to testify during the trial of Marie-Antoinette, he refused to testify against her and deposed in her favour, which led to his trial on 11 November 1793, sentenced to the guillotine and executed the following day. Portrait. Drawing by Hippolyte de la Charlerie. Engraving by Pannemaker. ""History of the French Revolution"". Volume I, 1876.
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Jean Sylvain Bailly (1736-1793). French politician, scientist and academic. Mayor of Paris (1789-1791). Elected on 12 May 1789, first deputy of the Third Estate of Paris to the Estates General. President of the National Assembly (17 June to 3 July 1798). Called to testify during the trial of Marie-Antoinette, he refused to testify against her and deposed in her favour, which led to his trial on 11 November 1793, sentenced to the guillotine and executed the following day. Portrait. Drawing by Hippolyte de la Charlerie. Engraving by Pannemaker. ""History of the French Revolution"". Volume I, 1876.

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19e siècle

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Jean Sylvain Bailly astronomer mathematician scientist politician academic scholar French Academy France French history portrait engraving Pannemaker Hippolyte de la Charlerie Mayor Paris deputy Third Estate Estates General French Revolution National Assembly president Feuillants Club Society of the Friends of the Constitution

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