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Character. Seal of the Jacobin Club from 1789 to 1792, during the transition from absolutism to constitutional monarchy. By early 1791, clubs like the Jacobins, the Club des Cordeliers and the Cercle Social were increasingly dominating French political life. Numbers of men were members of two or more of such clubs.
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The Jacobins were a political club during the French...
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A Jacobin (French pronunciation: [ʒakɔbɛ̃]; English: / ˈ dʒ...
- Jacobin (Disambiguation)
Apr 4, 2024 · Jacobin Club, the most famous political group of the French Revolution, which became identified with extreme egalitarianism and violence and which led the Revolutionary government from mid-1793 to mid-1794.
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A Jacobin (French pronunciation: [ʒakɔbɛ̃]; English: / ˈ dʒ æ k ə b ɪ n /) was a member of the Jacobin Club, a revolutionary political movement that was the most famous political club during the French Revolution (1789–1799). The club got its name from meeting at the Dominican rue Saint-Honoré Monastery of the Jacobins.
On 8 and 12 May in the Jacobin Club, Robespierre restated the necessity of founding a revolutionary army, that would search for grain, to be funded by a tax on the rich, and would be intended to defeat aristocrats and counter-revolutionaries.
Jacobin Club; Seal of the Jacobin Club (1792–1794) Successor: Panthéon Club: Formation: 1789: Founder: Maximilien Robespierre: Founded at: Versailles, France: Dissolved: November 12, 1794: Type: Parliamentary group: Legal status: Inactive: Purpose: Establishment of a Jacobin society
Initially founded in 1789 by anti-royalist deputies from Brittany, the club grew into a nationwide republican movement, with a membership estimated at a half million or more. Members of the Jacobins would often belong to mainly to the less prosperous section of the society (the working class).
Jacobin Club, or Jacobins, Political group of the French Revolution, identified with extreme radicalism and violence. Formed in 1789 as the Society of the Friends of the Constitution, it was known as the Jacobin Club because it met in a former convent of the Dominicans (known in Paris as Jacobins).
