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    Pierre-François Palloy (23 January 1755 – 1835), self-styled as Palloy Patriote (Palloy the Patriot), was an entrepreneurial building contractor remembered...
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    to manage the demolition of the castle. One of these experts was Pierre-François Palloy, a bourgeois entrepreneur who claimed vainqueur status for his role...
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    Bastille were produced between 1789 and 1790 by the businessman Pierre-François Palloy using stones from the demolition of the Bastille, the building they...
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    after the Bastille was taken when an entrepreneurial business man, Pierre-François Palloy, recruited a team to tear down the fortress. Recovered construction...
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    replace it, or indeed if it should remain as a monument to the past. Pierre-François Palloy secured the contract to demolish the building, with the dimension...
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    Hall gave the construction entrepreneur Pierre-François Palloy the commission of disassembling the building. Palloy commenced work immediately, employing...
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    Le Père Duchesne broadsides Letter by Jacques Hébert to citizen Pierre-François Palloy Doyle, William (1989); The Oxford History of the French Revolution;...
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    liberty, and a column would be erected there. The first stone was laid by Palloy; however, construction never took place, and a fountain was built instead...
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