Mémoires d’un témoin de la Révolution

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Mémories d’un témoin de la Révolution is an incomplete memoir by Jean-Sylvain Bailly, a French statesman and astronomer. Bailly was a key figure in the early French Revolution, notably leading the Tennis Court Oath. He later served as the first mayor of Paris. The memoir covers his public life up to October 1789, detailing the extraordinary events he witnessed. Bailly's involvement in the Revolution led to his arrest and eventual execution by guillotine in 1793.1

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Jean-Sylvain Bailly
…July 1792, where he composed Mémoires d’un témoin de la Révolution (“Memoirs of a Witness of the Revolution”), an incomplete narrative of the extraordinary events of his public life up to October 1789. After the siege of Nantes by the Vendéans, Bailly went to Melun in July 1793 to join…
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…July 1792, where he composed Mémoires d’un témoin de la Révolution (“Memoirs of a Witness of the Revolution”), an incomplete narrative of the extraordinary events of his public life up to October 1789. After the siege of Nantes by the Vendéans, Bailly went to Melun in July 1793 to join…
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