Society of Friends of the Constitution

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The Society of Friends of the Constitution, better known as the Jacobin Club, was a leading radical political club during the French Revolution that championed republicanism, popular sovereignty, and sweeping social reforms.

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Predicate Object
instanceOf Jacobin Club
political club
revolutionary organization
activeIn French Revolution
aim centralization of power in the National Convention
defense of the Revolution
establishment of a republic
sweeping social reforms
alsoKnownAs Jacobin Club
Jacobin Club
surface form: Society of the Jacobins

Society of Friends of the Constitution
surface form: Société des amis de la Constitution
basedIn Paris
controlled Committee of Public Safety
surface form: Committee of Public Safety (de facto influence)
country France
dissolved 1794
dissolvedAfter fall of Robespierre
founded 1789
hadMember Bertrand Barère
Camille Desmoulins
Georges Danton
Jacques Hébert
Jean-Paul Marat
Louis Antoine de Saint-Just
Maximilien Robespierre
historicalReputation symbol of revolutionary radicalism in the French Revolution
ideology popular sovereignty
radical democracy
republicanism
social egalitarianism
influencedBy Age of Enlightenment
surface form: Enlightenment

Republicanism
surface form: Rousseauian republicanism
inspired later radical and republican movements in Europe
languageOfName French
meetingPlace Jacobin convent
surface form: Jacobin convent in Paris
membership Parisian sans-culottes leaders
deputies of the National Assembly
opposed Girondins
monarchy
organizationalForm network of affiliated clubs across France
playedRoleIn Reign of Terror
establishment of the First French Republic
overthrow of the monarchy in 1792
politicalPosition far-left
published political addresses and manifestos
supported abolition of feudal privileges
dechristianization policies (in part of its membership)
price controls on basic goods
universal male suffrage

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Referenced by (3)

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The Tennis Court Oath (unfinished) commissionedBy Society of Friends of the Constitution
Jacobin Club originalName Society of Friends of the Constitution
this entity surface form: Society of the Friends of the Constitution
Society of Friends of the Constitution alsoKnownAs Society of Friends of the Constitution
this entity surface form: Société des amis de la Constitution