A political club formed at Versailles during the Estates General of 1789. Initially known as the Breton Club, the Jacobins began as a group of political moderates, dominated by the likes of Mirabeau, Sieyes and Barnave. The club radicalised after being shifted to Paris in late 1789, as its more moderate members left to form new groups, such as the ...
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strictly, a member of the Jacobin club, but more broadly any revolutionary, particularly the more radical bourgeois elements.
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The Jacobins were a radical French political group. The Jacobins stood for the establishment of a single, uniform, rational and centralised nation- state, which would be a democratic republic, expressing the sovereignty of the people. Jacobins were entirely hostile to aristocratic privileges and to all feudal forms of government. They were original...
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The Jacobins were the most famous of the clubs of the first French Revolution. When the states-general assembled at Versailles in 1789, it was formed and called the Club Breton. On the removal of the court and national assembly to Paris it acquired importance and rapidly increased. It adopted the name of Societe des Amis de la Constitution, but as ...
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