Abstract
However diverse their interpretations of the French Revolution, historians seem to agree, by their discourse if rarely by their intentions, that Jacques-Pierre Brissot was one of the major actors in that great drama. Yet Brissot has never won either the adulation or the condemnation accorded his chief rival and ultimate executioner, Maximilien Robespierre, though Robespierre has continued to attract biographers even in a time when the genre itself was in mild disrepute; only one slight French biography of Brissot has appeared since 1932, and none has been published in English since 1915.1 Brissot is treated by most historians not as an individual important in his own right but as one leader of the faction named after him, the Brissotins, better known as the Girondins, who, despite all the recent scholarly attention focused on them, have
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