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Jean Baptiste Fleuriot Lescot

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Preceded by
  
Jean-Nicolas Pache

Nationality
  
French

Role
  
Architect


Jean-Baptiste Fleuriot-Lescot httpsuploadwikimediaorgwikipediacommonsthu

Succeeded by
  
Office abolished (no mayor until 1848 with Louis-Antoine Garnier-Pages, following the overthrow of Louis Philippe I)

Occupation
  
architect, sculptor, revolutionary

Name
  
Jean-Baptiste Fleuriot-Lescot

Died
  
July 28, 1794, Paris, France

Similar People
  
Jean Jaures, Shapour Bakhtiar, Jean‑Paul Marat, Stanislas Marie Adelaide, Henry IV of France

Jean-Baptiste Edmond Fleuriot-Lescot or Lescot-Fleuriot (1761, Brussels – 28 July 1794, Paris) was a Belgian architect, sculptor and a revolutionary. He was mayor of Paris for 2 months and 18 days in 1794.

Fleuriot-Lescot was a supporter of Maximilien Robespierre and remained with him on the night of July 27, 1794 (9 Thermidor, Year II) after Robespierre was overthrown from the National Convention. He, Robespierre, Louis de Saint-Just, Georges Couthon, and others among their supporters were executed by guillotine the following day.

After he was guillotined, the office of mayor of Paris was abolished, and with the exception of two brief interludes in 1848 following the overthrow of Louis Philippe I and in 1870-1871 following the overthrow of Napoleon III, it wouldn't be restored until 1977.

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Jean-Baptiste Fleuriot-Lescot Wikipedia