Cordeliers
1790–1794 populist political club during the French Revolution / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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The Society of the Friends of the Rights of Man and of the Citizen (French: Société des Amis des droits de l'homme et du citoyen [sɔsjete dez‿ami de dʁwa də lɔm e dy sitwajɛ̃]), mainly known as Cordeliers Club (French: Club des Cordeliers [klœb de kɔʁdəlje]), was a populist political club during the French Revolution from 1790 to 1794, when the Reign of Terror ended and the Thermidorian Reaction began.
Cordeliers Club Club des Cordeliers | |
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Presidents | Georges Danton (1790–1791) Pierre-François-Joseph Robert (1791–1792) Jacques Hébert (1792–1794) |
Founders | Georges Danton Camille Desmoulins |
Founded | 27 April 1790; 234 years ago (1790-04-27) |
Dissolved | 20 February 1795; 229 years ago (1795-02-20) |
Headquarters | Cordeliers Convent, Paris |
Newspaper | Le Vieux Cordelier (Dantonists) Le Père Duchesne (Hébertists) |
Ideology | Jacobinism Populism[1] Direct democracy Radicalism |
Political position | Left-wing to far-left |
National affiliation | The Mountain (1792–1794) |
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Slogan | Liberté, égalité, fraternité ("Liberty, equality, fraternity") |
Party flag | |
The club campaigned for universal male suffrage and direct democracy, including the referendum. It energetically served as a watchdog looking for signs of abuse of power by the men in power. By 1793, it was challenging the centralization of power by Robespierre and his Committee of Public Safety. They responded by arresting the leadership, charging them with conspiring to overthrow the Convention. The leaders were guillotined, and the club disappeared.