Cordeliers
Sign in to saveThe Society of the Friends of the Rights of Man and of the Citizen ( ), mainly known as Cordeliers Club ( ), was a populist political club during the French Revolution from 1790 to 1794, when the Reign of Terror ended and the Thermidorian Reaction began.
Key facts
- Political party.name
- Cordeliers Club
- Political party.native_name
- Club des Cordeliers
- Political party.logo
- Open-eye emblem of the Cordeliers.svg
- Political party.caption
- "Open-eye" logo used in some Cordelier publications
- Political party.leader1_title
- Presidents
- Political party.leader2_title
- Founders
- Political party.leader2_name
- Georges DantonCamille Desmoulins
- Political party.headquarters
- Cordeliers Convent, Paris
- Political party.newspaper
- Le Vieux Cordelier (Dantonists)Le Père Duchesne (Hébertists)
- Political party.ideology
- JacobinismPopulismDirect democracyRadicalism
- Political party.position
- Left-wing to far-left
- Political party.national
- The Mountain (1792–1794)
- Political party.slogan
- Liberté, égalité, fraternité("Liberty, equality, fraternity")
- Political party.flag
- 190px|Flag of the Cordeliers Battalion (1790)
- Political party.country
- France
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- political faction
- Country
- France
- Headquarters
- Cordeliers Convent
- Image
- Open-eye emblem of the Cordeliers.svg
- Political ideology
- classical radicalism
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- dissolved, abolished or demolished date
- 1795-02-20
- native label
- Club des cordeliers
- Commons category
- Club of the Cordeliers
- inception
- 1790-04-27
- time period
- French Revolution
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Encyclopedic overview
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- History
- Bibliography
- Factions and members
- See also
- Further reading
- Notes
The Society of the Friends of the Rights of Man and of the Citizen ( ), mainly known as Cordeliers Club ( ), was a populist political club during the French Revolution from 1790 to 1794, when the Reign of Terror ended and the Thermidorian Reaction began.
The club campaigned for universal male suffrage and direct democracy, including the referendum. It energetically served as a watchdog looking for signs of abuse of power by the men in power. By 1793, it was challenging the centralization of power by Robespierre and his Committee of Public Safety. They responded by arresting the leadership, charging them with conspiring to overthrow the Convention. The leaders were guillotined, and the club disappeared.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Cordeliers” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.