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Jacobin Club: Quick Facts

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Also Known As Jacobins • Société des Jacobins, Amis de la Liberté et de l’Égalité • Société des Amis de la Constitution • Society of the Friends of the Constitution • Club des Jacobins • Society of the Jacobins, Friends of Liberty and Equality
Date 1789 - November 11, 1794
Related People Napoleon I • Maximilien Robespierre • Jacques-Louis David • Georges Danton • Joseph Fouché, duc d’Otrante • Lucien Bonaparte • Paul-François-Jean-Nicolas, vicomte de Barras • Camille Desmoulins • Jacques Hébert • Antoine Barnave • Henri Grégoire • Bertrand Barère • Jean-Nicolas Billaud-Varenne • Jean-Marie Collot d’Herbois • Louis-Philippe-Joseph, duc d’Orléans

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Eighteenth-century painted portrait of Maximilien de Robespierre wearing a brown striped coat, high collar, and white cravat, set against a plain background.
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