How to Pronounce Jean-Baptiste Lynch
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Jun 03, 1749 Bordeaux, Nouvelle Aquitaine, France Died on 15 Aug 1835 (aged 86)
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About Jean Baptiste Lynch
- Jean-Baptiste Lynch (3 June 1749 – 15 August 1835) was a Count of the First French Empire, Mayor of Bordeaux and a peer of France, sitting in the upper house of the French Senate.
- Lynch opposed the French Revolution (1789–1799), and was later imprisoned under the Reign of Terror (5 September 1793 – 8 July 1794).
- In 1808, he was appointed mayor of Bordeaux, and was for a time entirely devoted to Napoleon.
- In 1813, he contacted the royalist agents, and in 1814 he surrendered the city to the British.
- Louis XVIII later appointed him a peer of France.
