 However, he was further upset when word came that Brissot, the Girondin leader, was executed.This caused him to believe that all of the countries were equally bad, except the Republican United States, which he hoped to make his home.In 1794, many of Southey's feelings on Robespierre's involvement in these actions were included in both "Joan of Arc" and the "Fall of Robbespierre", which followed after Robespierre's own execution.