Jean-Sylvain Bailly17 July 1789
As mayor of Paris, Bailly formally received Louis XVI at the Hotel de Ville after the fall of the Bastille.
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As mayor of Paris, Bailly formally received Louis XVI at the Hotel de Ville after the fall of the Bastille.
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