Antique Engraving Print – Portrait of Jacques Pierre Brissot – French Revolution. Jacques Pierre Brissot (1754 – 1793) who assumed the name of de Warville (an English version of “d’Ouarville”, a hamlet in the village of Lèves where his father owned property), was a leading member of the Girondins during the French Revolution and founder […]
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Antique Engraving Print Portrait of Jean Sylvain Bailly French Revolution
Antique Engraving Print – Portrait of Jean Sylvain Bailly – French Revolution. Jean Sylvain Bailly (1736 – 1793) – astronomer and leader of the French Revolution, first president of the Constituent Assembly and mayor of Paris; constitutionalist. The revolution pulled him out of the peaceful sphere and transferred him to the very center of political […]