Historical Figures

Bailly Jean Sylvain (1736 - 1793)

He is part of a family of French painters, sculptors and scholars. He himself was a writer and astronomer, he belonged from 1785 to the three academies (French, Fine Arts and Sciences). Member of the Third Estate, he became President of the National Assembly. After the storming of the Bastille, he is the new mayor of Paris. He lost his popularity by rallying to Louis XVI, whom he protected at Varennes. Subsequently, he ordered La Fayette to fire on the sans-culottes at the Champ-de-Mars. He resigned, then was executed.