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Political clubs during the French Revolution [ Politics & Society / Clubs & Societies ]

… Résumé This entry examines the political clubs of the French Revolution, focusing especially on the Jacobin Club. It explores the reasons why the clubs strayed … Society Places > Clubs & Societies Mots-clés Politics French Revolution Gender Democracy Violence law Sovereignty State Jacobin Club Faction Political clubs proliferated in France during the French Revolution and became a principal driver of …

Debating societies [ Clubs & Societies / Associational culture ]

… many men of limited formal education and provided forums for a broad part of the population, including women. Places > Clubs & Societies Practices > Associational culture Mots-clés Debate Politics Middle class Plebeian Public sphere Oratory … societies suspected of backing seditious writers like Thomas Paine. The government suspected debating societies to be ‘Jacobin’ and as dangerous as the London Corresponding Society and other plebeian societies. There were indeed … any potential customer). Superficial similarities between the LCS and debating societies, the presence of high-profile ‘Jacobins’ in some debating societies, and especially the fear of any public debate among the rabble, contributed to …

Pierre-Ambroise François Choderlos de Laclos [ Art and Literature / Association ]

… Résumé Laclos embodied all forms of eighteenth-century sociability. He was a Freemason and regular visitor to the clubs and salons of the revolutionary period. Finding his military career unrewarding, he became politically active … frequented the salons of the garrison towns where he was posted as an artilleryman and was a member of the societies and clubs of the revolutionary period. He was also a Freemason. His political activity alongside Louis Philippe II, Duc … Club des Valois, most of which were based in the Palais-Royal. He also played a particularly active role in the Club des Jacobins (which he joined on his return from England in October 1790) as founder and editor of the Journal des Amis de la …

Taverns [ Food & Drink venues ]

… 1   But taverns provided locations for a large variety of activities beyond eating and drinking, including meetings of clubs and societies, political meetings, balls and assemblies, celebratory dinners, and concert performances. They also … political debate, initially in support of John Wilkes and then for various radical political causes, including housing a Jacobin Club in the 1790s. John Freeth himself was a well-known ballad writer and poet, and would write poems, printed in … Constitutional Information and the Whig Club, were attacked by loyalist publications such as the True Briton and Anti-Jacobin , which depicted reform-minded political tavern meetings as radical drunken routs which threatened the stability …

Helen Maria Williams [ Art and Literature / Travel ]

… a member of the Amis des Noirs’s first society in Paris, Williams had close connections with the members of the British Club ‘The Friends of the Rights of Man, associated in Paris’. The British Club’s membership included English, Irish and American supporters of the Girondists, such as John Hurford Stone and Joel … . At the height of The Terror, Williams, who was well known for her Girondist sympathies and her public criticism of the Jacobins in volumes 3 and 4 of her Letters (published in 1793), was forced into exile in Switzerland and only returned to …

Stéphanie-Félicité de Genlis [ Aristocracy ]

… sur le Champ-de-Mars (Louis-Philippe,  Mémoires , 134-136) tandis que son époux parraine le futur roi des Français au club des Jacobins (139), avant que celui-ci ne prenne son service dans les armées révolutionnaires. Si Genlis, intervenant dans … France les violences vont croissant. A son retour à Paris, Genlis apprend que le duc d’Orléans a rejoint le parti des Jacobins. Elle presse en vain son mari d’émigrer, mais celui-ci est emprisonné quelque temps au palais du Luxembourg, …