Brissot

The French revolutionary Jacques Pierre Brissot de Warville gathered stories about him almost three decades after his death, during a visit to the United States in 1788.

Brissot wrote that Lay was “simple in his dress and animated in his speech; he was all on fire when he spoke on slavery.”

Brissot de Warville, whose caustic pen was already in full exercise, published a bitter review of the book.

He then visited Paris, where he became intimate with Brissot, through whose agency, and without his knowledge, he was subsequently made a citizen of the French Republic, and elected a member of the second National Assembly.

Others, including Brissot, Louvet, Buzot, Lasource, Grangeneuve, Larivi�re and Bergoing, escaped from Paris and, joined later by Guadet, P�tion and Birotteau, set to work to organize a movement of the provinces against the capital.