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.

By meeting in the former Dominican convent of the Jacobins in Paris, the group adopted the name ‘Jacobins’. The club's early meetings focused on discussing revolutionary ideas and organizing political actions. They were initially led by Georges Danton, who consistently advocated for the establishment of the Republic.

The English writer Arthur Young joined the club in this manner on January 18, 1790. Jacobin Club meetings soon became a place for radical and rousing oratory that pushed for republicanism, widespread education, universal suffrage, separation of church and state, and other reforms.

Purpose. Establishment of a Jacobin society. 1789–1791: abolition of the Ancien Régime, creation of a parliament, introduction of a Constitution, and separation of powers. 1791–1795: establishment of a republic, fusion of powers into the National Convention, and establishment of an authoritarian-democratic state.

Jacobins were radical French revolutionaries who supported the National Convention and the Terror from 1792 to 1794. They advocated republicanism, democracy, and social welfare, and were opposed by the Girondins and the white Terror.

Jacobinism was the name of the most influential political club of the French Revolution, founded in 1789 and led by Robespierre. It advocated republicanism, equality, and virtue, and was responsible for the Reign of Terror and the fall of Robespierre.

The Jacobins were the most famous of the political clubs that fomented the French Revolution. Initially moderate, they are remembered mainly for instituting the Reign of Terror. Crane Brinton's The Jacobins was written in the 1930s, itself a decade of the violent centralization of unchecked political power. Brinton offers not an account of the ...

Jacobin Club, or Jacobins, Political group of the French Revolution, identified with extreme radicalism and violence. Formed in 1789 as the Society of the Friends of the Constitution, it was known as the Jacobin Club because it met in a former convent of the Dominicans (known in Paris as Jacobins).

It was the man of mo-derate property, the simple man, who promised to become the virtuous citizen. He therefore attributed to the general will and its agent, the government, the power to confiscate and distribute property so that each individual would become virtuous.