Brissot

(Jean Pierre) de Warville , active French revolutionist, b. Chart res, 14 Jan. 1754. He was bred to the law, but took to literature. He wrote for the Courier de l’Europe , a revolutionary paper suppre ed for its boldne , published a treatise on Truth, and edited a Philosophical Law Library, 1782–85. He wrote against the legal authority of Rome, and is credited with Philosophical Letters upon St. Paul and the Christian Religion , Neufchatel, 1783. In 1784 he was imprisoned in the Bastille for his writings. To avoid a second imprisonment he went to England and America, returning to France at the outbreak of the Revolution. He wrote many political works, became member of the Legislative A embly, formed the Giron dist party, protested against the execution of Louis XVI., and upon the triumph of the Mountain was executed with twenty-one of his colleagues, 31 Oct., 1793. Bri ot was a voluminous writer, honest, unselfish, and an earnest lover of freedom in every form.