Jean-Baptiste Lynch
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1749 – 1835
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Who was Jean-Baptiste Lynch?
Jean-Baptiste Lynch 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, and was later imprisoned under the Reign of Terror. 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.
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