Jean Sylvain Jean-Sylvain Bailly was a French astronomer, mathematician, freemason, and political leader of the early part of the French Revolution.
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18 Facts About Jean-Sylvain Bailly
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Jean-Sylvain Bailly became deeply attracted to science particularly astronomy, by the influence of Nicolas de Lacaille.
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Jean-Sylvain Bailly participated in the construction of an observatory at the Louvre.
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Jean-Sylvain Bailly published his Essay on The Theory of the Satellites of Jupiter in 1766.
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Jean-Sylvain Bailly later released the noteworthy dissertation On the Inequalities of Light of the Satellites of Jupiter in 1771.
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Jean-Sylvain Bailly gained a high literary reputation thanks to his Eulogies for King Charles V of France, Lacaille, Moliere, Pierre Corneille and Gottfried Leibniz, which were issued in collected form in 1770 and 1790.
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Jean-Sylvain Bailly was a member of the Club de 1789, one of the best-known societies at the time.
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In 1791, Jean Sylvain Jean-Sylvain Bailly joined the Jacobin Club, but took no active role in it.
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Jean-Sylvain Bailly presented him with the new symbol of the revolution: the cockade of France.
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Jean-Sylvain Bailly envisioned being in a position where all answered to him, and only his orders were to be followed.
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Jean-Sylvain Bailly's views are depicted in the following passage of his Memoires:.
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Jean-Sylvain Bailly is in a better position to detect the difficulties and the dangers than the other members who do not have the same information.
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Jean-Sylvain Bailly had deputies gather grain that was being hoarded, made the sale of wheat mandatory by farmers, and helped the bakers by making them first in line in the village markets.
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Jean-Sylvain Bailly saw the importance of having a military that was well-equipped.
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Jean-Sylvain Bailly allowed investors to begin the purchasing of church property.
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Jean-Sylvain Bailly's proposal proved successful in generating revenue for Paris and the French state.
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Jean-Sylvain Bailly soon heard of a gathering at the Champ de Mars, where citizens were meeting to sign petitions calling for the overthrow of the King.
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Jean-Sylvain Bailly was forced to endure the freezing rain and the insults of a howling mob.
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