Bernard René Jourdan, marquis de Launay (8/9 April 1740 – 14 July 1789) was the French governor of the Bastille. He was the son of a previous governor...
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François-Jérôme d'Abadie 1761-1776 : Antoine-Joseph de Jumilhac 1776-14 July 1789 : Bernard-René Jourdan de Launay Provisional Governor of the Bastille : Prosper...
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1680–1718) Éamonn an Chnoic (died c. 1724) Jacques de Flesselles (1730–1789) Bernard-René Jourdan de Launay (1740–1789) Staker Wallace (1733–1798) John Murphy...
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Storming of the Bastille (redirect from Comte de Solages)
troops on the Champ de Mars. The walls mounted 18 eight-pound guns and 12 smaller pieces. The governor was Bernard-René de Launay, son of a previous governor...
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was decapitated. De Flesselles was one of several representatives of the ancien régime killed that day. Bernard-René Jourdan de Launay Charles Coulston...
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unenthusiastic pensioners to begin to disable the weapons held. Unlike Bernard-René Jourdan de Launay, the governor of the Bastille, Sombreuil subsequently accepted...
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Jean-Jacques de Dardel: L'hôtel de Besenval – siège de l'ambassade de Suisse en France, Labor et Fides, Genève, 2013, p. 74 François-René de Chateaubriand:...
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Jacques Baron Charbon de Mer 1936: Michel Matveev Étrange Famille 1937: Georges Pillement Plaisir d'Amour 1938: Pierre Jean Launay Léonie la Bienheureuse...
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Martial Herman (category People from Pas-de-Calais)
Court), Lanne (judge) and Herman's assistant; Foucault (judge); Garnier-Launay (judge); Renaudin (juror); Leroy (juror), Vilate (juror); Prieur (juror)...
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Its governor, Bernard-René de Launay, surrendered after several hours of fighting that cost the lives of 83 attackers. Taken to the Hôtel de Ville, he was...
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