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CLUB OF THE CORDELIERS

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Originally appearing in Volume V07, Page 138 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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CLUB OF THE See also:CORDELIERS  , or SocIETY of THE See also:FRIENDS OF THE RIGHTS OF See also:MAN AND OF THE See also:CITIZEN, a popular society of the See also:French Revolution . It was formed by the members of the See also:district of the See also:Cordeliers, when the Constituent See also:Assembly suppressed the 6o districts of See also:Paris to replace them with 48 sections (21st of May 1790) . It held its meetings at first in the See also:church of the monastery of the Cordeliers, the name given in See also:France to the Franciscan Observantists,—now the See also:Dupuytren museum of See also:anatomy in connexion with the school of See also:medicine . From 1791, however, the Cordeliers met in a See also:hall in the See also:rue See also:Dauphine . The aim of the society was to keep an See also:eye on the See also:government; its See also:emblem on its papers was simply an open eye . It sought as well to encourage revolutionary See also:measures against the See also:monarchy and the old regime, and it was it especially which popularized the See also:motto " See also:Liberty, Equality, Fraternity." It took an active See also:part in the See also:movement against the monarchy of the loth of See also:June and the loth of See also:August 1792; but after that date the more moderate leaders of the See also:club, See also:Danton, See also:Fabre d'See also:Eglantine, Camille See also:Desmoulins, seem to have ceased attending, and the " enrages " obtained See also:control, such as J . R . See also:Hebert, F . N . See also:Vincent, C . P . H .

Ronsin and A . F . Momoro . Its See also:

influence was especially seen in the creation of the revolutionary See also:army destined to assure provisions for Paris, and in the See also:establishment of the See also:worship of See also:Reason . The Cordeliers were combated by those revolutionists who wished to end the Terror, especially by Danton, and by Camille Desmoulins in his See also:journal Le Vieux Cordelier . The club disowned Danton and Desmoulins and attacked See also:Robespierre for his " moderation," but the new insurrection which it attempted failed, and its leaders were guillotined on the 24th of See also:March 1794, from which date nothing is known of the club . We know little of its See also:composition . The papers emanating from the Cordeliers are enumerated in M . See also:Tourneux, Bibliographic de l'histoire de Paris See also:pendant la Revolution (1894), i . (on the trial of the Hebertists) Nos . 4204-4210, ii . Nos .

9795-9834 and 11,813 . See also A . Bougeart; See also:

Les Cordeliers, documents pour servir d. l'histoire de in Revolution (See also:Caen, 1891) ; G . Lenotre, Paris revolutionnaire (Paris, 1895) ; G . Tridon, Les Hebertists, plainte contre une calomnie de l'histoire (Paris, 1864) . The last-named author was condemned to four months' See also:prison; his See also:work wasreprinted in 1871 . The See also:inventory of the pictures found in 1790 in the monastery of the Cordeliers was published by J . Guiffrey in Nouvelles archives de l'See also:art See also:francais, viii., 2nd See also:series, iii . (1880) . (R .

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