Revolutionary mob carrying on pikes the heads of the Marquis de Launay, Governor of the Bastille, and Jacques de Flesselles, a Paris City Hall official. Both were killed and decapitated on July 14, 1789, after the Bastille was taken. After a contemporary work. Bernard René Jourdan, marquis de Launay, 1740 1789. Jacques de Flesselles, 1730 1789.
Revolutionary mob carrying on pikes the heads of the Marquis de Launay, Governor of the Bastille, and Jacques de Flesselles, a Paris City Hall official. Both were killed and decapitated on July 14, 1789, after the Bastille was taken. After a contemporary work. Bernard René Jourdan, marquis de Launay, 1740 1789. Jacques de Flesselles, 1730 1789.
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