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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.
Maximilien Robespierre One of the leading figures of the French Revolution, Maximilien Robespierre.

Jacobin Club

French political history
Also known as: Club des Jacobins, Jacobins, Société des Amis de la Constitution, Société des Jacobins, Amis de la Liberté et de l’Égalité, Society of the Friends of the Constitution, Society of the Jacobins, Friends of Liberty and Equality(Show More)
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Jacobin Club, the most famous political group of the French Revolution, which became identified with extreme egalitarianism and violence and which led the Revolutionary government from mid-1793 to mid-1794. The Jacobins originated as the Club Breton at Versailles, where the deputies from Brittany to the Estates-General (later the National Assembly) of 1789 met with deputies from other parts of France to concert their action. The group was reconstituted, probably in December 1789, after the National...

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