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Jean Sylvain Bailly (1736-1793) Historian of astronomy; early leader of the French Revolution, and in 1790 Mayor of Paris at the Champ de Mars.
Francis L. Hawks, ed. Pictorial Cyclopaedia of Biography (New York: D. Appleton & Co., 1856) 68.
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