Brissot was reputed to have inspired these orations.

Buzot and Robespierre, both members of the same Assembly, were introduced there.

Buzot, whose pensive beauty, intrepidity, and eloquence were destined hereafter to agitate the heart and soften the imagination of Madame Roland; and Robespierre, whose disquiet mind and fanatic hatred cast him henceforward into all meetings where conspiracies were formed in the name of the people.

Some others, too, came, whose names will subsequently appear in the annals of this period.
Brissot, Petion, Buzot, Robespierre, agreed to meet four evenings in each week in the _salon_ of Madame Roland.
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The motive of these meetings was to confer secretly as to the weakness of the Constituent Assembly, on the plots laid by the aristocracy to fetter the Revolution, and on the impulse necessary to impress on the lukewarm opinions, in order to consolidate the triumph.

They chose the house of Madame Roland, because this house was situated in a quarter equi-distant from the homes of all the members who were to assemble there.