Brissot de Varvill Jacques Pierre (Jacques Pierre Brissot de Warville)

Brissot de Varvill Jacques Pierre (1754 - 1793) - the son of a prosperous innkeeper. After college, he served first as a clerk at the prosecutor of the Paris Parliament. After returning from England in 1784, Mr.. falls in the Bastille. Coming from there, gets a place known for its liberal views of the Duke of Orleans. At the same time are fastened his acquaintance with Mirabeau, Condorcet, and other future leaders of the revolution. In 1787, Mr.. visited the United States of America and since then has strongly advocated the abolition of slavery.

In the revolution Brissot joined as a journalist and writer, publisher of the newspaper "French patriot". In the Legislative Assembly was the leader of the Girondins, the defenders of the interests of large commercial, industrial and financial bourgeoisie coastal cities. Since the autumn of 1791. was a zealous advocate of the idea of "revolutionary war", believed that the French people is intended to liberate other nations from the rule of the tyrants. He played against the royal authority, for the establishment of the French Republic, but after the occurrence of the Girondins in the government tried to prevent the fall of the monarchy. Open clash with the Jacobins, the Girondins in the Convention led to a popular uprising 31 May - 2 June 1993, which resulted in Girondist Brissot and other leaders were arrested. October 31, 1993, Mr.. Brissot guillotined by the revolutionary tribunal verdict.