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Georges Danton
Georges Danton, portrait by Constance-Marie Charpentier; in the Musée Carnavalet, Paris.
In the spring of 1790, Georges Danton helped found the Club of the Cordeliers by collaborating with a group of militants from his local district.1
Danton had previously established a strong connection to the area after enrolling in the garde bourgeoise (civic guard) of the Cordeliers district at the outbreak of the French Revolution in 1789, where he was elected district president that October. The resulting association, which took its name from the nationalized Franciscan monastery where it originally met, was created with the stated purpose of preventing the abuse of power and protecting the rights of man.12