Brissot

/ briso /

noun

1. BrissotJacques-Pierre17541793MFrenchWRITING: journalistPOLITICS: revolutionary Jacques-Pierre (ʒakpjɛr). 1754–93, French journalist and revolutionary; leader of the Girondists: executed by the Jacobins

Example Sentences

The French revolutionary Jacques Pierre Brissot de Warville gathered stories about him almost three decades after his death, during a visit to the United States in 1788.

From Salon

Brissot wrote that Lay was “simple in his dress and animated in his speech; he was all on fire when he spoke on slavery.”

From Salon

Brissot de Warville, whose caustic pen was already in full exercise, published a bitter review of the book.

From Project Gutenberg

He then visited Paris, where he became intimate with Brissot, through whose agency, and without his knowledge, he was subsequently made a citizen of the French Republic, and elected a member of the second National Assembly.

From Project Gutenberg

Associated with these views was a group of deputies from other parts of France, of whom the most notable were Condorcet, Fauchet, Lasource, Isnard, Kersaint, Henri Larivi�re, and, above all, Jacques Pierre Brissot, Roland and P�tion, elected mayor of Paris in succession to Bailly on the 16th of November 1791.

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