... Gibraltar Saints battle of Crillon François Félix Dorothée de Berton des Balbes duc de deputy to Estates General nationalism Duclos Charles philosophe Peyssonnel Claude Charles de diplomat Nora Pierre Varennes Convention French ancien regime Bourbon monarchy Jacques-Pierre Brissot French...

... moves on to Philadelphia, hoping to find assistance from another acquaintance of Edme Mentelle's, but finds the door shut in his face. This was probably because that acquaintance had heard of a letter the wife of French revolutionary Jacques-Pierre Brissot wrote her brother in Philadelphia...

...This chapter examines the friendship between J. Hector St. John de Crèvecoeur and French abolitionist Jacques-Pierre Brissot. Crèvecoeur's Letters from an American Farmer was long seen as the first expression of American literary consciousness. The book proved to be a best seller...

...This chapter focuses on Jacques-Pierre Brissot de Warville and how he and his allies were in serious trouble by the end of May 1793. Neither eloquence nor equivocation could save them from the growing wrath of the Montagnards in the National Convention. Skeptical colleagues and distrustful...

... François Antoine French Grant 1795 Saugrain Antoine Edme Mentelle Waldemar Mentelle Charlotte Mentelle French Revolution Manon Roland Jacques-Pierre Brissot Maximilien Robespierre Gallipolis Once Waldemar went to America, Charlotte grew in his mother’s esteem. On April 23, 1790, Edme wrote...

... Hannah née Harding Johnson Joseph Sans Souci Club Abigail Adams John Adams Samuel Adams James Beesley Thomas Birch James Blackstone James Boswell James Bowdoin Jacques-Pierre Brissot de Warville James Burgh William Cooper John Dickinson Edward Dilly Charles d’Éon de Beaumont David Steuart...