Jean Sylvain Bailly

(1736-1793)

NAME AUTHORITIES: LOC: Bailly, Jean Sylvain, 1736-1793 LBT ID: JeBaill1793 VIAF ID: 27174087 LOC ID: n81052400	B/BAP: 1736-09-15 DIED: 1793-11-12
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French astronomer elected president of the Third Estate (1789); he was guillotined during the Terror.
REFERENCES TO Jean Sylvain Bailly: John Gibson Lockhart to Jonathan Christie, 3 August 1815 in The Life and Letters of John Gibson Lockhart (London: John C. Nimmo, 1897) Found 1: ¶ 2 C. Kegan Paul, William Godwin: his Friends and Contemporaries (London: Henry S. King & Co., 1876) Ch. IX. 1797 Found 2: ¶ 9 ¶ 10 Lang, Andrew, 1844-1912, The Life and Letters of John Gibson Lockhart (London: John C. Nimmo, 1897) Chapter 3: 1813-15