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Jacobins

LC control no.sh 85069215
LC classificationDC178
Topical headingJacobins
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See alsoFrance--History--Revolution, 1789-1799--Societies, etc.
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Scope noteHere are entered works on members of the affiliated political societies that spearheaded the French Revolution.
Found inAcad. Am. encyc.: v. 11, p. 345 (Jacobins: During the French Revolution, the Jacobins were members of the Society of the Friends of the Constitution, a political group that met from 1790 to 1794 in a former Dominican, or Jacobin, monastery in Paris. Members of the many local societies that became affiliated to the mother society in Paris were also called Jacobins.)
Americana: v. 15, p. 657 (Jacobin clubs: the group of political societies that spearheaded the French Revolution. The original Jacobin Club was an outgrowth of the Club Breton ... Other clubs were soon organized in every important town, eventually numbering several thousands.)