Brissotins

Jacques-Pierre Brissot de Warville (1754-93) was a leader of the Girondins, also known as the Brissotins, the faction originally to the left of the Feuillants (who supported a constitutional monarchy) but ultimately seen by more radical Jacobins as the faction of moderation.

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Desmoulins's Histoire des Brissotins, printed in May 1793, severely undermined the Girondins by representing them as agents of foreign enemies.

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His term in this office was interrupted when Louis XVI dismissed him on account of the king's disagreement with the ultimatums offered to him by the Brissotins.

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The Girondists in French Girondins, and sometimes Brissotins or "Baguettes", were a political faction in France within the Legislative Assembly and the National Convention during the French Revolution.

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The Girondists in French Girondins, and sometimes Brissotins or "Baguettes", were a political faction in France within the Legislative Assembly and the National Convention during the French Revolution.

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The Brissotins would have attempted a similar policy, but they had nothing to oppose to the

A Residence in France During the Years 1792, 1793, 1794 and 1795, Complete Described in a Series of Letters from an English Lady: with General and Incidental Remarks on the French Character and Manners An English Lady

Deputies (those distinguished by the name of Brissotins,) were either menaced into a compliance with the measures of the opposite faction, or arrested; others took flight, and, by representing the violence and slavery in which the majority of the Convention was holden, excited some of the departments to take arms in their favour.

A Residence in France During the Years 1792, 1793, 1794 and 1795, Complete Described in a Series of Letters from an English Lady: with General and Incidental Remarks on the French Character and Manners An English Lady

-- The Brissotins, sacrificed by a party even worse than themselves, have died without exciting either pity or admiration.

A Residence in France During the Years 1792, 1793, 1794 and 1795, Complete Described in a Series of Letters from an English Lady: with General and Incidental Remarks on the French Character and Manners An English Lady

Yet whoever examines attentively the situation and politics of France, from the subversion of the Monarchy, will be convinced that all the principles of this monstrous government were established during the administration of the Brissotins, and that the factions which succeeded, from Danton and Robespierre to Sieyes and Barras, have only developed them, and reduced them to practice.

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-- The remains of the Brissotins, with their newly-acquired authority, have vanity, interest, and revenge, to satiate; and there is no reason to suppose that a crime, which should favour these views, would, in their estimation, be considered otherwise than venial.

A Residence in France During the Years 1792, 1793, 1794 and 1795, Complete Described in a Series of Letters from an English Lady: with General and Incidental Remarks on the French Character and Manners An English Lady