Jean Sylvain Bailly 1736-1793, French
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Jean Sylvain Bailly 1736-1793, French
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Jean Sylvain Bailly (1736-1793) French astronomer, writer and politician. Bailly was a member of all the three great French academies, the Academie des Sciences, the Academie Francaise and the Academie des Inscriptions, a feat that had only been achieved once before. After the French Revolution, Bailly was elected President of the Third Estate in the Estates-General and acted as Mayor of Paris in 1789-1791. He was guillotined on the orders of the French Revolutionary Tribunal in Paris in November 1793. (Photo by Ann Ronan Pictures/Print Collector/Getty Images)
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January 28th, 2021
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