 One faction of the Revolution that was particularly welcoming to women was the Gironde. This was in part at least because their unofficial leader, Brissot, found it easy to admire and respect women’s intellect. He had known Catharine Macaulay in England and been instrumental in her republican History of England being translated to French. He was a close friend and correspondent of Manon Roland and had published (anonymously, following her wishes) several of her reflections on the Revolution in his paper Le Patriote Francois. Brissot was also a close friend and collaborator of fellow editor Louise Keralio-Robert. It was he who convinced the French Theatre to put on Olympe de Gouges’s abolitionist play, Zamore and Mirza, and then invited her to join his Society of Friends of the Black. He was also on the editorial board of Le Républicain, and advertised it in Le Patriote.