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  Jacques Pierre Brissot - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Jacques Pierre Brissot (January 15, 1754 – October 31, 1793), who assumed the name of de Warville, was a leading member of the Girondist movement during the French Revolution.
Brissot was born at Chartres, where his father was an inn-keeper.
Brissot became known as a writer, and was engaged on the Mercure de France, on the Courrier de l'Europe, and on other papers.
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 Jacques Pierre Brissot
Jacques Pierre Brissot (January, 1754 - October 31, 1795), who assumed the name of de Warville, a celebrated French Girondist, was born at Chartres, where his father was an inn-keeper.
The plan was unsuccessful, and soon after his return to Paris Brissot was lodged in the Bastille on the charge of having published a work against the government.
During the Legislative Assembly his knowledge of foreign affairs enabled him as member of the diplomatic committee practically to direct the foreign policy of France, and the declaration of war against the emperor on April 20, 1792, and that against England on July 1, 1793, were largely due to him.
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 NationMaster - Encyclopedia: Jacques Pierre Brissot
Brissot received a good education and entered the office of a lawyer lawyer is a person licensed by the state to advise clients in legal matters and represent them in courts of law and in other forms of dispute resolution.
From the first, Brissot threw himself heart and soul into the Revolution During the French Revolution (1789–1799) democracy and republicanism overthrew the absolute monarchy in France, and the French portion of the Roman Catholic Church was forced to undergo radical restructuring.
Brissot attempted to escape in disguise, but was arrested at Moulins Moulins or Moulin (French for mill) is the name or part of the name of several communes in France.
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 Brissot de Warville, Jacques Pierre. The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition. 2001-05
Brissot visited the Netherlands, Switzerland, England, and the United States.
Brissot, feeling that war would spread the principles of the French Revolution, did much to foment it with his diatribes against Europe’s monarchs.
In the Legislative Assembly his great influence on the conduct of foreign affairs contributed to the French declaration of war on Austria in 1792.
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 JACQUES PIERRE BRISSOT - LoveToKnow Article on JACQUES PIERRE BRISSOT   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
Brissot became known as a facile and able writer, and was engaged on the Mercure, on the Courrier de lEurope, and on other papers.
During the Legislative Assembly his knowledge of foreign affairs enabled him as member of the diplomatic committee practically to direct the foreign policy of France, and the declaration of war against the emperor on the 20th of April 1792, and that against England on the 1st of July 1793, were largely due to him.
His demeanour at the trial was quiet and dignified; and on the 3ist of October 1793 he died bravely with several other Girondists.
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 Jacques Pierre Brissot   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
Jacques Pierre Brissot (January 15, 1754 - October 31, 1795), who assumed the name of de Warville, was a leading member of the Girondist movement during the FrenchRevolution.
Brissot received agood education and entered the office of a lawyer at Paris.
Brissot became known as a writer, and was engaged on the Mercure, on the Courrier de l'Europe, and on otherpapers.
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 H-France Reviews
Brissot thus became, for Darnton, exemplary of a generation of would-be philosophes whose frustration with, rather than inspiration from, the Enlightenment propelled them into and influenced their affinities during the Revolution.
Her work is not a biography of Brissot as a journalist or politician and least of all as a revolutionary.[6] Loft studies primarily his published writings from the 1770s and 1780s, supplemented by some use of his correspondence and memoirs.
Particularly interesting is her discussion of Brissot’s best-known work, on reform of criminal law and on his anti-slavery writings, in chapters five and eight, respectively.
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 BRISSOT - LoveToKnow Article on BRISSOT   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
His first works, Thorie ~s lois cri-minelles (~ 781) and Bibliothque philosophique du ligislateur (1782), were on the philosophy of law, and showed how thoroughly Brissot was imbued with the ethical precepts of Rousseau.
As an agent of this society he paid a visit to the United States in 1788, and in 1791 published his Nouveau Voyage dans les Etats- Unis de lA mrique Septenirionale (3 vols.).
He edited the Patriote franca/s from 1789 to 1793, and being a well-informed and capable man took a prominent part in affairs.
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BRISSOT, JACQUES PIERRE (1754-1793), who assumed the name of DE WARVILLE, a celebrated French Girondist, was born at Chartres, where his father was an inn-keeper, in January 1754.
During the Legislative Assembly his knowledge of foreign affairs enabled him as member of the diplomatic committee practically to direct the foreign policy of France, and the declaration of war against the emperor on the loth of April 1792, and that against England on the 1st of July 1793, were largely due to him.
His demeanour at the trial was quiet and dignified; and on the 31st of October 1793 he died bravely with several other Girondists.
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 JACQUES PIERRE BRISSOT   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
Als Sohn eines Gastwirts geboren, erhielt Brissot eine gute Ausbildung und trat in ein Anwaltsbüro in Paris ein.
Brissot wurde als leichter und fähiger Autor bekannt und wurde beim Mercure, dem Courrier de l'Europe und anderen Blättern beschäftigt.
Von Anbeginn stürzte Brissot sich mit Herz und Seele in die Revolution.
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 Brissot de Warville, Jacques-Pierre -- biography   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
The son of a shopkeeper, Brissot later added to his name an Anglicised version of the name of his birthplace.
Brissot became one of the most powerful speakers in favour of declaring war on France's external enemies, and a violent opponent of Robespierre.
At the end of the trial of the King, in January 1793, Brissot voted for the death penalty.
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 Étienne Clavière, Jacques-Pierre Brissot et les fondations intellectuelles de la politique des girondins 1
Brissot était un homme qui, d?après Daunou, jouissait de nombreuses relations politiques en France, mais qui avait misé sa place dans l?Histoire sur l?homme qu?il considérait comme l?intellectuel républicain démocrate le plus éminent de son époque5.
Sa première collaboration avec Brissot fut rédigée depuis son refuge de Neuchâtel et s?inscrivit dans le cadre de sa campagne pour extraire une victoire morale au sein de la défaite militaire22.
Brissot affirmait que les Américains exerçaient leur droit naturel contre le parlement britannique ; il était du devoir des Genevois, dont les formes étaient prétendument démocratiques, de l?utiliser contre le Petit Conseil24.
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 Jacques Pierre Brissot   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
Brissot received a good education and entered the office of a lawyer lawyer quick summary:
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 SparkNotes: the French Revolution (1789–1799): Key People & Terms
Brissot’s followers, initially known simply as Brissotins, eventually became known more generally as the Girondins.
After unsuccessfully declaring war on Austria and Prussia, Brissot was removed from the National Convention and, like many Girondin leaders, lost his life at the guillotine during the Reign of Terror in 1793–1794.
Calonne proposed a daring plan to shift the French tax burden from the poor to wealthy nobles and businessmen, suggesting a tax on land proportional to land values and a lessened tax burden for peasants.
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 French Revolution - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The aristocrat Jacques Antoine Marie Cazalès and the abbé Jean-Sifrein Maury led what would become known as the right wing, the opposition to revolution.
Jacques Pierre Brissot drafted a petition, insisting that in the eyes of the nation Louis XVI was deposed since his flight.
The slightest hint of counter-revolutionary thoughts or activities (or, as in the case of Jacques Hébert, revolutionary zeal exceeding that of those in power) could place one under suspicion, and the trials did not proceed scrupulously.
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 Passion, Politics, and Philosophie — www.greenwood.com
University of Kentucky: Jacques-Pierre Brissot was one of the most important spokesmen for the French Revolutionary movement, and an important advocate of the abolition of slavery and the emancipation of the Jews.
It fully explores Brissot's manifold activities before and during the revolution as journalist, polemicist, reformist and anti-slavery activist, and it offers a compelling and convincing portrait of an idealistic man who fell victim to the unforgiving revolutionary politics.
The revaluation of the radical humanitarian Brissot is argued as vividly and cogently as anything written by the polemicist himself.
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 Roux Jacques: Free Encyclopedia Articles at Questia.com Online Library   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
Jacques Roux one of the leaders of the popular...a kind of historical version of Jacques Lacans famous mirror stage, that...revolutionary republicans, figures such as Jacques-Pierre Brissot, Marie-Jeanne Roland...
Francoise Roux of Saint Jacques, for example, was choir leader...of prior and subprior." 48 Roux of Saint Jacques and Marie Claire Larroc...
Pierre Gagnaire at Sketch and Jacques and Laurent Pourcel at WSens have come...England exerted its pull early on with the Roux brothers, who opened Le Gavroche in Sloane...trained chefs and encouragement through the Roux Brothers Scholarship for the young and...
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 Jacques Pierre Brissot
Jacques Pierre Brissot genannt de Warville (Januar 1754 in Chartres ; † 31.
Brissot wurde als leichter und fähiger bekannt und wurde beim Mercure dem Courrier de l'Europe und anderen Blättern beschäftigt.
Der war erfolglos und bald nach seiner Rückkehr Paris wurde Brissot in die Bastille geworfen mit dem Vorwurf ein Werk die Regierung veröffentlicht zu haben.
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 Jacques Pierre Brissot   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
The plan was unsuccessful and after his return to Paris Brissot was in the Bastille on the charge of having published work against the government.
During the Legislative Assembly his knowledge of affairs enabled him as member of the committee practically to direct the foreign policy France and the declaration of war against emperor on April 20 1792 and that against England on July 1 1793 were largely due to him.
Brissot attempted to escape in but was arrested at Moulins.
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 Conspiracy Obsession in a Time of Revolution
Brissot was not above demagoguery, and in the previous months he had proposed several different and sometimes contradictory conspiracy theories.
Arlette Farge and Jacques Revel have revealed the vulnerability of the Parisian popular classes to plot explanations in the mid-eighteenth century, when thousands could accept rumors that royal officials were abducting local children.
Jacques Thuriot accused members of the central government of simultaneously launching peasant insurrections, weakening the army, encouraging the export of gold, and inciting the intervention of foreign powers: "We are betrayed by everyone!" And it was in this context that Brissot first launched his accusations against the "Austrian Committee."
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Brissot turns up again and again in Darnton's work — he is mentioned here as often as Voltaire — and he has recently been the subject of an online publication by Darnton, J.-P. Brissot and the Société Typographique de Neuchâtel (2001), from the Voltaire Foundation.
Brissot, unlike Rousseau or Voltaire, is the kind of figure who seems directly to link Enlightenment and Revolution.
In return Brissot wrote pamphlets assailing government support of various banks and companies, claiming that the ministry deliberately shored up their assets in order to benefit those who put their money on share increases.
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 Brissot De Warville Jacques Pierre: Free Encyclopedia Articles at Questia.com Online Library   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
Brissot de Warville: A Study in the History of the French Revolution
BRISSOT DE WARVILLE, JACQUES PIERRE zhak pyer breso d varvel, 1754...for writing a seditious pamphlet.
Led at first by Jacques Brissot de Warville, the Girondists were...Notable members were Pierre Vergniaud, Charles...Jeanne Manon Roland de la Platiere.
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 AllRefer.com - Girondists (French History) - Encyclopedia
Led at first by Jacques Brissot de Warville, the Girondists were known as Brissotins.
Notable members were Pierre Vergniaud, Charles Dumouriez, and Jean Marie Roland de la PlatiEre and Jeanne Manon Roland de la PlatiEre.
Brissot, Vergniaud, and other leaders were subsequently executed.
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 References - Jacques Pierre Brissot   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
Brissot received a good education and entered the office of a lawyer at Paris, France.
From the first, Brissot threw himself heart and soul into the French Revolution.
Pierre Victurnien Vergniaud was the better orator, but Brissot was quick, eager, impetuous, and a man of wide knowledge.
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 AllRefer.com - Jacques Pierre Brissot de Warville (French History, Biography) - Encyclopedia
Jacques Pierre Brissot de Warville, French History, Biographies
Jacques Pierre Brissot de Warville[zhAk pyer brEsO´ du vArvEl´] Pronunciation Key, 1754–93, French revolutionary and journalist.
After his return to France in 1789 he began to edit the Patriote franCais, which later became an organ of the Girondists (at first called Brissotins).
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 France
Brissot was the driving force behind the organization.
Brissot and his associates embraced Montesquieu’s ideas, and became determined to end slavery.
Brissot and Claviere were declared enemy of the Republic by Robespierre and were guillotined.
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