Jacques Pierre Brissot

thumb|Brissot c. 1792 Jacques Pierre Brissot (15 January 1754 – 31 October 1793) was a leading member of the the Girondins during the French Revolution and founder of the abolitionist Society of the Friends of the Blacks. He was convicted for spying and being a counter-revoluntionary and sentenced to death alongside 28 others on 30 October 1793 and was executed by guillotine the next day. Quotes La propriété exclusive est un vol dans la nature. Exclusive property is a theft against nature. Quoted in Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations (1922), p. 615. It is less difficult for a woman to obtain celebrity by her genius than to be forgiven for it. Quoted in Familiar Short Sayings of Great Men by Samuel Arthur Bent. Published by Ticknor and Co. in 1887. External links Category:Academics from France Category:1754 births Category:1793 deaths Category:Politicians from France Category:Lawyers from France Category:French revolutionaries Category:Abolitionists Category:Diplomats of France Category:Authors from France Category:Travel writers Category:Memoirists from France Category:Editors Category:Executed people Category:People of the French Revolution