Jacques de Flesselles
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Jacques de Flesselles was a French official and one of the early victims of the French Revolution.
Portrait of Jacques de Flesselles by Donat Nonnotte (Musée Carnavalet)
Engraving, c.1789: French militia hoist the heads of de Flesselles and the Marquis de Launay on pikes. The caption reads "Thus we avenge the traitors".
Hôtel de Ville, Paris
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The Hôtel de Ville is the city hall of Paris, France, standing on the Place de l'Hôtel-de-Ville – Esplanade de la Libération in the 4th arrondissement. The south wing was originally constructed by Fra
Jacques de Flesselles
…following the storming of the Bastille on 14 July, de Flesselles found himself accused of royalist sympathies by an infuriated throng surrounding the Paris City Hall. De Flesselles was shot dead by an unknown shooter on the steps of the City Hall while trying to justify his actions, and his body was decapitated. De…
Main frontage of the Hôtel de Ville in April 2017
Engraving by Theodor Josef Hubert Hoffbauer (1885) showing how he envisioned the Hôtel de Ville in 1583
The Hôtel de Ville and the Place de Grève, Nicolas-Jean-Baptiste Raguenet, c. 1753
The Hôtel de Ville on the Verniquet atlas, 1780s