Political clubs during the French Revolution [ Politics & Society / Clubs & Societies ]
… 1981 [1978]); Keith M. Baker, Inventing the French Revolution (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1990). 2 . The classic version of this interpretation is Alphonse Aulard, Histoire politique de la Révolution française (Paris: A. … were nine-hundred-and-twenty-one. 7 Many cities had more than one club, and divisions between them emerged, often along class lines. In Nîmes, for example, one club charged a hefty twenty-four livre membership fee while another charged only six livres. 8 Jacobins may have spoken the language of ‘equality’, but they did not abandon class in politically organising during the early years of the Revolution. 7 . Michael L. Kennedy, The Jacobin Club in …
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