See also: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
- CHURCH (according to most authorities derived from the Gr. Kvpcaxov [&wµa], " the Lord's [house]," and common to many Teutonic, Slavonic and other languages under various forms—Scottish kirk, Ger. Kirche, Swed. kirka, Dan. kirke, Russ. tserkov, Buig. cerk
- CHURCH, FREDERICK EDWIN (1826-1900)
- CHURCH, GEORGE EARL (1835–1910)
- CHURCH, RICHARD WILLIAM (1815–189o)
- CHURCH, SIR RICHARD (1784–1873)
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
- HALL (generally known as SCHWABISCH-HALL, tc distinguish it from the small town of Hall in Tirol and Bad-Hall, a health resort in Upper Austria)
- HALL (O.E. heall, a common Teutonic word, cf. Ger. Halle)
- HALL, BASIL (1788-1844)
- HALL, CARL CHRISTIAN (1812–1888)
- HALL, CHARLES FRANCIS (1821-1871)
- HALL, CHRISTOPHER NEWMAN (1816—19oz)
- HALL, EDWARD (c. 1498-1547)
- HALL, FITZEDWARD (1825-1901)
- HALL, ISAAC HOLLISTER (1837-1896)
- HALL, JAMES (1793–1868)
- HALL, JAMES (1811–1898)
- HALL, JOSEPH (1574-1656)
- HALL, MARSHALL (1790-1857)
- HALL, ROBERT (1764-1831)
- HALL, SAMUEL CARTER (5800-5889)
- HALL, SIR JAMES (1761-1832)
- HALL, WILLIAM EDWARD (1835-1894)
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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