Jacques de Flesselles

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Jacques de Flesselles (1721 – July 14, 1789) was a French provost, a post roughly equivalent to mayor.

In 1785, after being provost of the merchants of Lyon, he became the last Provost of the merchants of Paris. Accused of royal sympathy by an infuriated throng surrounding the Paris City Hall in the afternoon after the storming of the Bastille, he was assassinated, shot by an unknown hand on the steps of the City Hall while trying to justify his actions, one of several representatives of the ancien régime killed that day.

This article incorporates text from the public domain 1907 edition of The Nuttall Encyclopædia.