1789 ⟶ Bailly Appointed Mayor of Paris, Lafayette Leads National Guard
July 15: The astronomer and mathematician Jean Sylvain Baill...
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👮 Bailly Appointed Mayor of Paris, Lafayette Leads National Guard
July 15: The astronomer and mathematician Jean Sylvain Bailly is named mayor of Paris, and Lafayette is appointed Commander of the newly formed National Guard.⟶
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🏛️ Lafayette and Bailly Found the Society of 1789
May 12: Lafayette and Jean Sylvain Bailly institute the Society of 1789.⟶
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🗳️ Pétion Elected Mayor of Paris
November 14: Jérôme Pétion de Villeneuve is elected mayor of Paris, with 6,728 votes against 3,126 for Lafayette. Out of 80,000 eligible voters, 70,000 abstain.⟶
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🗣️ Lafayette's Plea Against Radicals Thwarted by Pétion
June 28: Lafayette speaks to the Assembly, denouncing the actions of the Jacobins and other radical groups in the Assembly. His proposal to organize a review of the National guard in Paris is annulled by Pétion, mayor of Paris.⟶
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🗳️ Pache Elected Mayor of Paris
February 14: Jean Nicolas Pache is elected the new mayor of Paris.⟶
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👮 Pache Arrested, Fleuriot-Lescot Appointed Paris Mayor
May 10: Arrest of Jean Nicolas Pache, the former mayor of Paris, followed by his replacement by Jean-Baptiste Fleuriot-Lescot, a close ally of Robespierre.⟶
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