Bailly, Jean-Sylvain

Scholar, deputy and Mayor of Paris, 1736 - 1793

Jean-Sylvain Bailly (1736-1793), Mayor of Paris

Bailly, Jean-Sylvain: Astronomer and mathematician, he also became the Mayor of Paris on July 15, 1789. On July 17, 1791, he proclaimed martial law, causing the death of dozens of protesters on the Champ-de-Mars. He was executed for this very reason on the same location of the massacre on November 12, 1793.

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