Political clubs during the French Revolution [ Politics & Society / Clubs & Societies ]
… domains, such as taxation, calumnious speech and the grain trade, created a vacuum that the clubs attempted to fill. Lacking the constitutional legitimacy to do so, however, the clubs were accused of undermining and usurping state power. … credits the Jacobin clubs for many of the Revolution’s achievements. 2 According to this view, the clubs offered a kind of apprenticeship in democracy, teaching citizens how to work together to define and pursue common goals for a … age. If they lapsed into factionalism, this was due to the polarising effect of circumstances, notably the king’s failed attempt to flee France in 1791, which divided constitutional monarchists and republicans, and the outbreak …
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