The first mayor was Jean Sylvain Bailly ; he was succeeded on November 1791 by Pétion de Villeneuve after Bailly's unpopular use of the National Guard to disperse a riotous assembly in the Champ de Mars ( 17 July 1791 ).

Descendants of that couple use the surname " Le Bailly de La Falaise ", and after the act of succession, the family's younger sons have called themselves Count de La Falaise.

It has long been regarded as a joke on the part of Chaucer that, after being interrupted by the host Harry Bailly, Chaucer launches into one of the longest and some would say most boring of all the tales.

La Falaise inherited the title of Marquis de La Coudraye from his paternal grandfather, Gabriel-César-Henri Le Bailly de La Falaise, who, like his father, died in 1910 ( the father died on 4 April, the grandfather on 6 August ).

The picture was meant to be massive in scale ; the figures in the foreground were meant to be life-sized portraits of the counterparts, including Jean-Sylvain Bailly, the President of the Constituent Assembly.

His first artistic training was as a painter, studying under George Inness and Samuel Colman in New York City and Léon Bailly in Paris.

Jean-Sylvain Bailly ( 15 September 1736 – 12 November 1793 ) was a French astronomer, mathematician, and political leader of the early part of the French Revolution.

Born in Paris, Bailly was the son of Jacques Bailly, an artist and supervisor of the Louvre, and was the grandson of Nicholas Bailly, also an artist and a court painter.

The lunar crater Bailly was named in his honour.

In July 1793, Bailly left Nantes to join his friend Pierre Simon Laplace at Melun, but was there recognised and arrested.

In response, the Assembly asked Bailly, the mayor of Paris, to " halt the disorder "; martial law was declared ; and National Guard troops, under Lafayette, marched to the scene.

Mesmer's ideas became so influential that King Louis XVI of France appointed two commissions to investigate mesmerism ; one was led by Joseph-Ignace Guillotin, the other, led by Benjamin Franklin, included Bailly and Lavoisier.

Associated with these views was a group of deputies from elsewhere, of whom the most notable were the Marquis de Condorcet, Claude Fauchet, Marc David Lasource, Maximin Isnard, the Comte de Kersaint, Henri Larivière, and, above all, Jacques Pierre Brissot, Jean Marie Roland and Jérôme Pétion, elected mayor of Paris in succession to Jean Sylvain Bailly on 16 November 1791.

By late 1791, administrative control of Paris was dominated by the Jacobins and mayor Jean-Sylvain Bailly had resigned due to constant political attacks from the left.

Pétion received a still further proof of the affection of the Parisians for himself on 16 November 1791, when he was elected second mayor of Paris in succession to Bailly.

When the French Academy was reorganized in 1803, he was elected in the second class, replacing, in chair 31, Jean Sylvain Bailly, who had been guillotined on 12 November 1793 during the Reign of Terror.

Jean Sylvain Bailly, the first mayor of Paris, became a victim of his own revolution and was guillotined there on 12 November 1793.

In 1798, he was formally apprenticed to Sylvain Bailly, a famous pâtissier with a shop near the Palais-Royal.

By the time he was prepared to leave Bailly, he could stipulate that he should be free to leave his new employer when a better offer came along.

He was married, firstly in 1966, to Louise Vava Henriette Lucie Le Bailly de La Falaise, the daughter of Count Alain de la Falaise and his wife, the former Maxime Birley.

When in 1816 an act of Congress forced the foreign firm out of the United States, its British-born employees, now become American citizens -- Joseph Rolette, Joseph Renville and Alexis Bailly -- continued in the fur business.

Hercules L. Dousman, fur trader and merchant at Prairie Du Chien, contracted to supply Selkirk's people with some 300 head of cattle, and Alexis Bailly and Francois Labothe were hired as drovers.

In 1902 he witnessed the miraculous cure of Marie Bailly at Lourdes, made famous in part because she named Carrel as a witness of her cure.

Jean-Sylvain Bailly, president of the Assembly at the time of the Tennis Court Oath, became the city's mayor under a new governmental structure known as the commune.

He modeled them on temples, pyramids, and ancient ruins, taking ideas from architectural history books that he studied at the nearby Bibliothèque Nationale, thanks to the enlightened attitude of his first employer Bailly.

Calder immigrated to the United States in 1868 and settled in Philadelphia, where he studied with Joseph A. Bailly, and took classes ( as would his son Alexander Stirling Calder ) with Thomas Eakins at the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts.

The Marquis de la Fayette took up command of the National Guard at Paris ; Jean-Sylvain Bailly – leader of the Third Estate and instigator of the Tennis Court Oath – became the city's mayor under a new governmental structure known as the Commune de Paris.

* Richard Le Bailly de La Falaise, Ecuyer ( 1910 — died at Buchenwald in 1945 )

La Falaise directed at least five motion pictures, among them two dramas about primitive life and customs: Kliou the Killer ( 1934, released 1936, also known as Kliou the Killer Tiger ) and Legong: Dance of the Virgins ( 1933, released 1935, also known as Djanger: Love Rite of Bali ). The latter production was described many years later as a " seductive blend of serious documentary, lyrical effusion and unbridled prurience ". He may also have written a film script for Gloria Swanson, his first wife, called Paris Luck, a 1927 work that bore the name of Robert Bailly.

Joseph de Pasquale was a student of Louis Bailly, Max Aronoff and William Primrose at the Curtis Institute of Music.

In combination with the Flight to Varennes, this event, known as the ' Champs de Mars Massacre ' ( Fusillade du Champs de Mars ), furthered the public's mistrust of Lafayette and Bailly ; in the aftermath, Lafayette resigned from the National Guard and Bailly left his post as mayor.

The Joseph Bailly Homestead is located in Indiana Dunes National Lakeshore on Howe Road, just north of U. S. 20.

Bailly published his Essay on the theory of the satellites of Jupiter in 1766 ), an expansion of a presentation he had made to the Academy in 1763.

From then on, Bailly devoted himself to the history of science, publishing A history of ancient astronomy in 1775, followed by A history of modern astronomy ( 3 vols., 1782 ).

By convention these features are identified on lunar maps by placing the letter on the side of the crater midpoint that is closest to Bailly.

The king announced that he would recall Necker and return from Versailles to Paris ; on 27 July, in Paris, he accepted a tricolour cockade from Bailly and entered the Hôtel de Ville, as cries of " Long live the King " were changed to " Long live the Nation ".

In dimension it is the second-largest crater formation on the visible Moon, being beaten only by the 303-kilometer-diameter walled plain Bailly.

In the words of Jean Sylvain Bailly, astronomer and mayor of Paris: " We suggest that this meeting (...) be sworn on the next 14 July, which we shall all see as the time of liberty: this day shall be spent swearing to uphold and defend it ".

Both formations are larger than the walled plain Bailly, the largest crater on the near side.

He was present in the crowd that demanded the removal of King Louis XVI on Champ de Mars in July 1791 ( and during the subsequent massacre ordered by Jean Sylvain Bailly ).

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