Political clubs during the French Revolution [ Politics & Society / Clubs & Societies ]
… of wealthy liberal nobles, financiers and clerics. The abbé Sieyès, author of the influential pamphlet What is the Third Estate? , belonged to both. The Club de Valois met in the duc d’Orléans’s personally owned but semi-public Palais-Royal, …
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