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The French revolutionary Jacques Pierre Brissot de Warville gathered stories about him almost three decades after his death, during a visit to the United States in 1788.

Brissot wrote that Lay was “simple in his dress and animated in his speech; he was all on fire when he spoke on slavery.”

Brissot de Warville, whose caustic pen was already in full exercise, published a bitter review of the book.

He then visited Paris, where he became intimate with Brissot, through whose agency, and without his knowledge, he was subsequently made a citizen of the French Republic, and elected a member of the second National Assembly.

On the 28th of July a decree of the Convention proscribed, as traitors and enemies of their country, twenty-one deputies, the final list of those sent for trial comprising the names of Antiboul, Boilleau the younger, Boyer-Fonfr�de, Brissot, Carra, Duchastel, the younger Ducos, Dufriche de Valaz�, Duprat, Fauchet, Gardien, Gensonn�, Lacaze, Lasource, Lauze-Deperret, Lehardi, Lesterpt-Beauvais, the elder Minvielle, Sillery, Vergniaud and Viger, of whom five were deputies from the Gironde.