Jeunesse dorée

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Jeunesse dorée was a royalist-leaning youth movement in post-Revolutionary France known for its violent street actions against Jacobins during the Thermidorian Reaction.

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Predicate Object
instanceOf counter-revolutionary group
political youth movement
royalist movement
activeDuring French Revolution NERFINISHED
Thermidorian Reaction NERFINISHED
associatedWith Thermidorian moderates NERFINISHED
country France
dissolvedBy end of the 1790s
dressStyle fashionable bourgeois clothing
formedAfter fall of Robespierre NERFINISHED
goal restoration of conservative order
suppression of Jacobin influence
historicalContext post-Terror political reaction
historicalRole instrument of reaction against the Terror
ideology anti-Jacobinism
royalism
knownFor attacks on Jacobin clubs
participation in White Terror
violent street actions against Jacobins
language French
location Paris
nickname gilded youth
operatedIn post-Revolutionary France
opposedPoliticalSystem Jacobin dictatorship
opposedTo Jacobins NERFINISHED
radical sans-culottes
partOf White Terror NERFINISHED
politicalAlignment right-wing
socialComposition bourgeois youth
middle-class youth
young men from commercial and professional classes
supported Thermidorian Convention NERFINISHED
symbolicMeaning reaction of affluent youth against revolutionary radicalism
targeted Jacobin militants
symbols of the Terror
timePeriod 1794
1795
usedTactics disruption of political meetings
intimidation of political opponents
street violence

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