Jacobin convent

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The Jacobin convent was a former Dominican monastery in Paris that became a central meeting place and symbolic stronghold of the radical Jacobin political movement during the French Revolution.

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Observed surface forms (4)

Surface form Occurrences
Abbaye prison 1
Carmelite convent prison 1
Jacobin (Dominican) convent 1

Statements (31)

Predicate Object
instanceOf former monastery
historical building
political meeting place
associatedWith French Revolution
Jacobin Club
radical Jacobin movement
city Paris
country France
functionDuringRevolution central meeting place for Jacobin Club
symbolic stronghold of radical Jacobins
historicalRole center of revolutionary political debate in Paris
influence on revolutionary legislation
locatedIn Paris
Rue Saint-Honoré, Paris NERFINISHED
locatedInCountry France
namedAfter Dominican friars known as Jacobins in France
originalFunction Dominican monastery
politicalOrientationOfActivities radical republicanism
revolutionary democracy
religiousAffiliationBeforeRevolution Roman Catholicism
surface form: Roman Catholic Church
religiousOrder Order of Preachers
surface form: Dominican Order
significance important landmark of the French revolutionary period
key site of Jacobin political organization
status no longer existing in its original form
timePeriodOfProminence French Revolution
usedAs meeting place of the Jacobin Club
political club headquarters
usedBy Georges Danton
Jacobin Club
surface form: Jacobin deputies of the National Convention

Jean-Paul Marat
Maximilien Robespierre

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this entity surface form: Jacobin (Dominican) convent
this entity surface form: Jacobin convent in Paris
Jacobin Club namedAfter Jacobin convent
September Massacres tookPlaceIn Jacobin convent
this entity surface form: Abbaye prison
September Massacres tookPlaceIn Jacobin convent
this entity surface form: Carmelite convent prison