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  1. Bailly, Jean Sylvain 1736-1793. French
  2. astronomer, who wrote about the satellites of
  3. Jupiter and the history of astronomy. Early
  4. in the French Revolution he was president of
  5. the National Assembly and mayor of Paris, but
  6. resigned in 1791; he was guillotined during
  7. the Reign of Terror.
  8.