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Jacques Pierre Brissot, also known as Brissot de Warville, was a French journalist, abolitionist, and revolutionary leading the faction of the Girondins at the National Convention in Paris.
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culture · French revolutionary (1754–1793) · politician · journalist · diplomat · translator · judge · lawyer · also Jacques Pierre Brissot, Jacques Pierre Brissot de Warville, Jean Pierre Brissot de Warville, Brissot
Born 15 January 1754 · Died 31 October 1793 · Q314984
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Historian Robert Darnton affirmed some of these accounts, and reaffirmed them in the 1980s, holding Brissot up as a case-study in the understanding of the difficult circumstances many philosophes encountered attempting t
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Died 1793-10-31.
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“Exclusive property is a theft against nature.”
“It is less difficult for a woman to obtain celebrity by her genius than to be forgiven for it.”
Career landmark: member of the French National Assembly (1792–1793).
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Career landmark: member of the French National Assembly (1791–1792).
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Awarded Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences (1789).
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Born 1754-01-15.
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