402 (session of the Jacobin Club, Nov.

28, 1791).] [Footnote 2347: Gustave III., King of Sweden, assassinated by Ankerstrom, says: "I should like to know what Brissot will say."] [Footnote 2348: On Brissot's antecedents, cf.

Edmond Bire, "La Legende des Girondins." Personally, Brissot was honest, and remained poor.

But he had passed through a good deal of filth, and bore the marks of it.

He had lent himself to the diffusion of an obscene book, "Le Diable dans un benitier," and, in 1783, having received 13,355 francs to found a Lyceum in London, not only did not found it, but was unable to return the money.] [Footnote 2349: Moniteur, XI.147.Speech by Brissot, Jan.17.