Political clubs during the French Revolution [ Politics & Society / Clubs & Societies ]
… Freemasons. Their underground lodges took root in Paris in the late 1720s, but by the end of the Ancien Régime , many elites, including leading courtiers, had become members. In the 1780s, a raft of clubs sprang up, many with political …
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