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French soldiers or militia with the heads of the marquis de Launay and Flesselles on their pikes

Jacques de Flesselles (1721, Paris – 14 July 1789) was a French public servant and one of the first victims of the French Revolution.

On 21 April 1789, after serving as Intendant of Lyon (1768–1784), he became the last provost of the merchants of Paris, a post roughly equivalent to mayor. Accused of royal sympathies 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.