Member+of+the+Jacobin+Club

  • 1Jacobin Club — The Jacobin Club was the largest and most powerful political club of the French Revolution. It originated as the Club Benthorn , formed at Versailles as a group of Breton deputies to the Estates General of 1789. At the height of its influence,… …

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  • 2Jacobin (politics) — This page describes the political term Jacobin. For discussion of the political organization of the French Revolution era, see Jacobin Club. Jacobinism is unrelated to Jacobitism or the English Jacobean period. In the context of the French… …

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  • 3jacobin — n. 1. Dominican, predicant, blackfriar, preaching friar, frère prêcheur. 2. Member of the Jacobin Club (radical body in the French Revolution of 1789). 3. Anarchist, red republican, turbulent demagogue …

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  • 4Jacobin — For other uses, see Jacobin (disambiguation). The door of the Jacobin Club was in the Rue Saint Honoré, Paris. The Jacobin Club was the most famous and influential political club in the development of the French Revolution,[1] so named because of …

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  • 5History of the Jews in France — The Jewish community in France presently numbers around 600,000, according to the World Jewish Congress and 500,000 according to the Appel Unifié Juif de France, and is found mainly in the metropolitan areas of Paris, Marseille, Strasbourg, Lyon …

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  • 6The Women's March on Versailles — An illustration of the Women s March on Versailles, 5 October 1789 The Women s March on Versailles, also known as The October March, The October Days, or simply The March on Versailles, was one of the earliest and most significant events of the… …

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  • 7Glossary of the French Revolution — This is a glossary of the French Revolution. It generally does not explicate names of individual people or their political associations; those can be found in List of people associated with the French Revolution. The terminology routinely used in …

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  • 8Jacobin — Jac•o•bin [[t]ˈdʒæk ə bɪn[/t]] n. 1) why (in the French Revolution) a member of a radical political club that instituted the Reign of Terror 2) why an extreme radical, esp. in politics 3) rel a Dominican friar • Etymology: 1275–1325; (def. 3) ME… …

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  • 9Jacobin — /ˈdʒækəbən/ (say jakuhbuhn) noun 1. a Dominican friar. 2. a member of a famous club or society of French revolutionaries organised in 1789, so called from the Dominican convent in Paris in which they met. They developed clubs throughout France… …

  • 10Jacobin — noun a) A member of the most radical club founded during the French Revolution, which instituted the Reign of Terror. b) An extreme political radical …

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