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Jacobins
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition
...Jacobins , political club of the French Revolution...French republic, the Jacobins and other opponents...1793), for which the Jacobins were largely responsible, the Jacobin leaders instituted the...Bibliography: See I. Woloch, Jacobin Legacy: The Democratic...Kennedy, The ...
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Jacobin
Book article from: The Concise Oxford Companion to English Literature
Jacobin, originally a name of the French friars of the order of St Dominic, so called...From them the name was transferred to the members of a French political club established in 1789, in Paris, in the old convent, to maintain extreme...
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Jacobinism
Encyclopedia entry from: International Encyclopedia of the Social Sciences
...anticlerical views. Political clubs grew in popularity as the...organizations similar to the Jacobin clubs were established from the...lobby or threaten. The mother club in Paris spawned a network of approximately 5,500 Jacobin “ cells ” in the provinces. These clubs ...
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Robespierre, Maximilien de
Encyclopedia entry from: U*X*L Encyclopedia of World Biography
...popular at meetings of a Paris club called the Jacobins, whose members admired him and...Paris, spending time at the Jacobins and publishing a weekly political...attend. As a spokesman for the Jacobins in the National Convention...
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François Noel Babeuf
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of World Biography
...applied the word "terrorists" to the Jacobins of 1793-1794. After the Jacobins fell on 9 Thermidor (July 27, 1794...he soon attracted a following of former Jacobins, and they opened a club at the Panth é on. In February...
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Maximilien Marie Isidore Robespierre
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition
...General of 1789, and his influence in the Jacobin Club grew steadily until he became its leader (see Jacobins ). In the National Constituent Assembly...the Girondists and the Mountain , as the Jacobins in the assembly were known. He demanded...
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Maximilien François Marie Isidore de Robespierre
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of World Biography
...receptive listeners at the Paris Jacobin Club, where throughout his career he...playing an influential role in the Jacobin Club and shortly founding a weekly...spokesman for the Mountain, the radical Jacobin faction in the Convention, he played...
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Joseph Fouché
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition
...at first with the Girondists , but then became a Jacobin . As a Jacobin, he supported the Reign of Terror and assisted Jean...1799). Always an opportunist, he closed the Jacobin clubs and helped Napoleon Bonaparte's coup of 18 Brumaire...
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Feuillants
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition
Feuillants , political club of the French Revolution. It emerged in July, 1791, when those Jacobins who opposed a petition for the dethronement of the king split...Sept., 1792) of the monarchy, were suppressed by the Jacobins.
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Jean Marie Collot d'Herbois
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition
...originally an actor and playwright. Although a member of his Jacobin club, he favored a constitutional monarch. His Almanach du P...although its patriotism won a competition sponsored by the Jacobins. He was a member of the revolutionary Commune of Paris and...
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