HAITI - "PORTRAIT of Jacques Pierre BRISSOT, Member of the Legislative Assembly and the National Convention", dedicated to the Haitians. Engraving. Proof on wove paper, dedicated in brown ink: "Offered to Messieurs [?] in affectionate memory / A. [?] / October 23, 1869". Margins. Jacques Pierre Brissot, or Brissot de Warville, born in Chartres in 1754 died on October 31, 1793 in Paris. Leader of the Girondins during the French Revolution, founding member of the Society of the Friends of the Blacks (1788), favorable to the suppression of the slave trade, close to the American revolutionaries, Brissot founded the newspaper "Le Patriote français". 39,5 x 28,7 cm. Condition C (foxing and stains mainly in the good margins and verso, rare folds).