• Flesselles can refer to: The town of Flesselles, Somme, in France Jacques de Flesselles (1721 – 14 July 1789), provost of Paris assassinated during the...
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    father, also Jacques de Flesselles, was a financial official who had served as a royal adviser. The younger Jacques de Flesselles followed a similar career...
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    Flesselles (French pronunciation: [flɛsɛl]; Picard: Fléchèle) is a commune in the Somme department in Hauts-de-France in northern France. Flesselles is...
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    Blackbeard (c. 1680–1718) Éamonn an Chnoic (died c. 1724) Jacques de Flesselles (1730–1789) Bernard-René Jourdan de Launay (1740–1789) Staker Wallace...
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    balloon he had developed. In early 1784, the Flesselles balloon, named after the unfortunate Jacques de Flesselles, later to be an early casualty at the Bastille...
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    heads of the Marquis de Launay, Governor of the Bastille, and of Monsieur Flesselles, Prévôt des Marchands. It was a chilling and a horrid sight! ... Shocked...
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    fighting, de Launay and seven other defenders were killed, as was Jacques de Flesselles, the prévôt des marchands ("provost of the merchants"), the elected head...
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    Revolution. On 14 July 1789, the last provost of the merchants Jacques de Flesselles was murdered by an angry crowd. On 27 July 1794, Maximilien Robespierre...
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    21) and also in Hilary Mantel's A Place of Greater Safety. Jacques de Flesselles La Bastille. Mémoires pour servir à l'histoire secrète du gouvernement...
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    storming of the Bastille, the provost of the merchants of Paris, Jacques de Flesselles was shot by the crowd on the steps of Paris City Hall. Although in the...
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    murdered the last Provost of Paris (Provost of the Merchants), Jacques de Flesselles. Because the Provost's office was abolished as one of the first moves...
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    second flight on 19 January 1784, with a huge Montgolfier balloon Le Flesselles launched from Lyon. Four French nobles paid for the trip, including a...
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  • 1617 Concino Concini, chief minister to King Louis XIII 1789 Jacques de Flesselles, Provost of Paris 1793 Jean-Paul Marat, revolutionary Charlotte Corday...
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  • Batteux, French philosopher and academic (b. 1713) 1789 – Jacques de Flesselles, French politician (b. 1721) 1789 – Bernard-René de Launay, French politician...
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    Fieffes-Montrelet Fienvillers Fignières Fins Flaucourt Flers Flers-sur-Noye Flesselles Fleury Flixecourt Fluy Folies Folleville Fonches-Fonchette Fontaine-le-Sec...
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  • marquis de Mirabeau, French economist (b. 1715) July 14 – Jacques de Flesselles, French provost (assassinated) (b. 1721) July 15 – Jacques Duphly, French...
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    Portrait by Jean-Laurent Mosnier, 1789 Mayor of Paris Preceded by Jacques de Flesselles (Provost of the Merchants) Succeeded by Jérôme Pétion de Villeneuve 1st...
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    the French Revolution, portrayed the death of public servant Jacques de Flesselles, who was murdered on the steps before the Hôtel de Ville (Paris City Hall)...
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    cook named Denót or Desnot killed De Launay, royalist provost Jacques de Flesselles was killed too. Although five were lynched, most of the Bastille's defenders...
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    des Cosaques contre la Pologne, which he dedicated to Nicolas Léonor de Flesselles, count de Brégy, who was an ambassador to Poland in 1645. In the dedication...
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  • the six passengers on the traumatic flight of the Montgolfier balloon Flesselles on 19 January 1784. The flight was about 720 seconds, and was piloted...
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  • (13) 2–4 Association Longpré-Long-Condé (12) 44. Amiens AF (11) 2–1 US Flesselles (10) 45. ES Harondel (11) 3–3 (3–1 p) AS Menchecourt-Thuison-La Bouvaque...
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    Fieffes-Montrelet Fienvillers Fignières Fins Flaucourt Flers Flers-sur-Noye Flesselles Fleury Flixecourt Fluy Folies Folleville Fonches-Fonchette Fontaine-le-Sec...
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    Fieffes-Montrelet Fienvillers Fignières Fins Flaucourt Flers Flers-sur-Noye Flesselles Fleury Flixecourt Fluy Folies Folleville Fonches-Fonchette Fontaine-le-Sec...
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    surrenders; as he exits, he is killed by the crowd. The crowd also kills de Flesselles, the provost of the Paris merchants. July 15: The astronomer and mathematician...
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    Fieffes-Montrelet Fienvillers Fignières Fins Flaucourt Flers Flers-sur-Noye Flesselles Fleury Flixecourt Fluy Folies Folleville Fonches-Fonchette Fontaine-le-Sec...
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    carried around Paris. The provost of the merchants of Paris, Jacques de Flesselles, was also murdered. The fortress itself was completely demolished by November...
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    forced to land at the aerodrome of 3 Squadron Australian Flying Corps at Flesselles, Somme (France)on 9 June 1918 and later presented to the Australian Government...
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  • 1728-1735 Pontcarré de Viarmes, 1735-1753 Le Bret, 1753-1765 Jacques de Flesselles, 1765-1767 François Marie Bruno d'Agay, 1767-1771 Guillaume-Joseph Dupleix...
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    Fieffes-Montrelet Fienvillers Fignières Fins Flaucourt Flers Flers-sur-Noye Flesselles Fleury Flixecourt Fluy Folies Folleville Fonches-Fonchette Fontaine-le-Sec...
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