Brewer's: Brissotins

A nickname given to the advocates of reform in the French Revolution, because they were “led by the nose” by Jean Pierre Brissot. The party was subsequently called the Girondists.

Source: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, E. Cobham Brewer, 1894
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