Jean Pierre Brissot De Warville

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Jean Pierre Brissot De Warville [1]

A French revolutionary, born at Chartres, son of a pastry-cook; bred to the bar, took to letters; became an outspoken disciple of Rousseau; spent some time in the Bastille; liberated, he went to America; returned on the outbreak of the Revolution, sat in the National Assembly, joined the Girondists; became one of the leaders, or rather of a party of his own, named after him Brissotins, midway between the Jacobins and them; fell under sus picion like the rest of the party, was arrested, tried and guillotined (1754-1793).

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