User:Josefu/Work In Progress/Paris mayors

=Paris mayors = Before the French Revolution, the municipality of Paris was headed by the provost of the merchants (prévôt des marchands). On July 14, 1789, at the end of the afternoon, following the storming of the Bastille, the provost of the merchants of Paris, Jacques de Flesselles, was shot by the crowd on the steps of Paris city hall. The next day, the first mayor of Paris was elected.
 * July 15, 1789 - November 18, 1791: Jean-Sylvain Bailly (guillotined)
 * November 18, 1791 - October 15, 1792: Jérôme Pétion (committed suicide in 1794 as he was about to be arrested)
 * December 8, 1792 - February 2, 1793: Nicolas Chambon
 * February 14, 1793 - May 10, 1794: Jean-Nicolas Pache (deposed and arrested, survived)
 * May 10, 1794 - July 27, 1794: Jean-Baptiste Fleuriot-Lescot (guillotined)
 * 1794-1977: office of mayor abolished, no mayor (except briefly in 1848 following the overthrow of Louis-Philippe and in 1870-1871 following the overthrow of Napoleon III)
 * March 20, 1977 - May 16, 1995: Jacques Chirac
 * May 22, 1995 - March 24, 2001: Jean Tiberi
 * March 25, 2001 - now: Bertrand Delanoë