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Jacques Pierre Brissot
Jacques Pierre Brissot (15 January 1754 – 31 October 1793), who assumed the name of de Warville (an English version of "d'Ouarville", a hamlet in the village of Lèves where his father owned property), was a leading member of the Girondins during the French Revolution and founder of the abolitionist Society of the Friends of the Blacks. Some sources give his name as Jean Pierre Brissot.
Biography.
Brissot was born at Chartres, where his father was an innkeeper. He received
links.
- Théveneau de Morande on Wikisource
- Simon Burrows, A Literary Low-Life Reassessed: Charles Théveneau de Morande in London, 1769-1791 from Johns Hopkins University Press.
- "La Gazette noire par un homme qui n'est pas blanc, ou Œuvres posthumes du Gazetier cuirassé".
- "Lettres aux électeurs du département de Paris sur Jacques-Pierre Brissot", Paris, 1791.
- "Réplique de Charles Théveneau Morande à Jacques-Pierre Brissot : sur les erreurs, les oublis