Jacques Pierre Brissot de Warville

Brissot de Warville, Jacques Pierre (zhäk pyĕr brēsōˈ də värvēlˈ) [key], 1754–93, French revolutionary and journalist. He began his career by writing numerous pamphlets and books. His Théorie des lois criminelles (1781) was a plea for penal reform. He was imprisoned briefly in the Bastille for writing a seditious pamphlet. Brissot visited the Netherlands, Switzerland, England, and the United States. He was interested in humanitarian schemes and founded the abolitionist Société des Amis des Noirs.


See biography by E. Ellery (1915, repr. 1970).


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