Jacques de Flesselles
The murder of Jacques de Flesselle (contemporary painting by Jean-Baptiste Lallemand )
Jacques de Flesselles (born November 11, 1730 in Paris , † July 14, 1789 ibid) was a French Vogt ('Prévot').
Flesselles was head of the Paris merchants and head of the city of Paris. After storming the Bastille , the angry crowd marched to Paris City Hall to bring Flesselles to justice. When he left this after much back and forth and crossed the square in front of it, he was shot by an unknown person. This makes Flesselles one of the first noble victims of the French Revolution, along with the commandant of the Bastille, Bernard-René Jordan de Launay . The heads were then carried on pitchforks through the streets of the capital to the cheers of the population.
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- ↑ The Pope to the lantern, the priests in their slaps! By Jacques-René Hébert and Peter Priskil
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| SURNAME | Flesselles, Jacques de |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | French prison commandant |
| DATE OF BIRTH | November 11, 1730 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Paris |
| DATE OF DEATH | July 14, 1789 |
| Place of death | Paris |