He was the delirium of the Revolution, himself a living delirium! IX.
Brissot, as yet obscure, wrote _Le Patriote Francais_.

A politician, and aspiring to leading parts, he only excited revolutionary passions in proportion as he hoped one day to govern by them.

At first a constitutionalist and friend of Necker and Mirabeau, a hireling before he became a _doctrinaire_, he saw in the people only a sovereign more suitable to his own ambition.

The republic was his rising sun; he approached it as to his own fortune, but with prudence, and frequently looking behind him to see if opinion followed his traces.
Condorcet, an aristocrat by genius, although an aristocrat by birth, became a democrat from philosophy.

His passion was the transformation of human reason.