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Brissot

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Brissot (French) [briso]
n
(Biographies / Brissot, Jacques-Pierre (1754-1793) M, French, WRITING: journalist, POLITICS: revolutionary) Jacques-Pierre (ʒakpjɛr). 1754-93, French journalist and revolutionary; leader of the Girondists: executed by the Jacobins


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Among Mirabeau's most important recruits were the Duke of Orleans (Philippe Egalite), Brissot, Condorcet, Savalette, Gregoire, Garat, Petion, Babeuf, Barnave, Sieyes, Saint-Just, Desmoulins, Hebert, Santerre, Danton, Marat, Chenier, and just about every other leader in the impending French Revolution.
Brissot, La Rochefoucauld and General Lafayette were struck that inn-keepers ate together with their maids and served their guests with their hats on their heads.
 
 
 
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