Political clubs during the French Revolution [ Politics & Society / Clubs & Societies ]
… colons français , or Club Massiac in that same year. Members of both clubs would lobby the National Assembly over the issue of extending or denying political rights for free people of colour in France’s Caribbean colonies. 6 As the … economic demands, dividing the club. Circumstances divided the Jacobins again the following spring, 1792. This time the issue was over whether to declare a pre-emptive war against the counterrevolutionary Austrians. Tensions between the … had poisoned politics, including within the clubs, that the state finally stepped in with legislation to address the issue in 1793. The stridency of its laws against ‘calumny’ reflected the frustrations and grievances that had built up …
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