Clichy Club
| Clichy Club | |
|---|---|
| Club de Clichy | |
| Country |
 France
|
| Leader(s) | |
| Foundation | July 28, 1794 |
| Dissolved | September 5, 1797 |
| Preceded by | Feuillant Club |
| Ideology |
Monarchism Laissez-faire Conservatism Anti-abolitionism |
| Political position | Right-wing |
| Status | Inactive |
| Size | Unknown (1794) |
| Means of revenue | |
The Clichy Club (French: Club de Clichy) was a political group active during the French Revolution, from 1794 to 1797.
During the French Revolution, the Club de Clichy formed in 1794, following the fall of Robespierre, 9 Thermidor an II (27 July 1794). The political club that came to be called the Clichyens met in rooms in the rue de Clichy, which led west towards the fashionable Parisian suburb of Clichy. The club was initially constituted around the dismissed deputés of the Convention, most of whom had been imprisoned during the Reign of Terror. Under the French Directorate they began to play an increasingly important role on the political Right, embracing moderate republicans and monarchiens, that is, those who still believed that in a constitutional monarchy based in part on the British model lay the best future for France. The main Clichyens were François Antoine de Boissy d'Anglas, Jean-Charles Pichegru and Camille Jordan; among other members were Mathieu Dumas, Pierre Paul Royer-Collard, and General Amédée Willot. With the closure of the Jacobin Club in November 1794, the danger from the political Left appeared to subside, and moderates drifted away from the Club de Clichy, which was dormant for several years.
Under the Directorate, the salons of Paris began cautiously to reconvene, under the guidance of women whose fortunes had not been ruined during the Revolution's first decade; the private sphere became politicized "one of the few sanctuaries of free exchange" observes the historian of the salons as a political force, as the public sphere was not free. Within the span of political opinion, those members of the Club de Clichy who figured among the monarchiens signalled their party loyalties in the long black waistcoats they wore.Mme de Staël attempted in her salon mixte to bridge the social and political differences between the monarchiens of the Club de Clichy and factions who were more securely associated with the new regime, such as those who congregated with Benjamin Constant at the Hôtel de Salm or in Talleyrand's circle.
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