Club of the Cordeliers
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Cordeliers Club
Club des Cordeliers |
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| Presidents |
Georges Danton (1790–1791) Pierre-François-Joseph Robert (1791–1792) Jacques Hébert (1792–1794) |
| Founders | Georges Danton, Camille Desmoulins |
| Founded | 1790 |
| Dissolved | 1794 |
| Headquarters | Cordeliers Convent, Paris, France |
| Newspaper |
Le Vieux Cordelier (Dantonists) Le Père Duchesne (Hébertists) |
| Ideology |
Radical democracy Jacobinism Populism |
| Political position | Left-wing to Far-left |
| National affiliation | The Mountain (1792–1794) |
| Colours | Green |
| Slogan | Liberté, égalité, fraternité (Liberty, equality, fraternity) |
The Society of the Friends of the Rights of Man and of the Citizen (French: Société des Amis des droits de l’homme et du citoyen), mainly known as Cordeliers Club (French: Club des Cordeliers), was a populist club during the French Revolution.
The club had its origins in the Cordeliers district, a famously radical area of Paris called, by Camille Desmoulins, "the only sanctuary where liberty has not been violated." This district, under the leadership of Georges Danton, had played a significant role in the Storming of the Bastille, and was home to several notable figures of the Revolution, including Danton himself, Desmoulins, and Jean-Paul Marat—on whose behalf the district placed itself in a state of civil rebellion when, in January 1790, it refused to allow the execution of a warrant for his arrest that had been issued by the Châtelet.
Having issued, in November 1789, a declaration affirming its intent to "oppose, as much as we are able, all that the representatives of the Commune may undertake that is harmful to the general rights of our constituents", the Cordeliers district remained in conflict with the Parisian government throughout the winter and spring of 1790. In May and June 1790, the previous division of Paris into sixty districts was, by decree of the National Assembly, replaced by the creation of forty-eight sections. This restructuring abolished the Cordeliers district.
Anticipating this dissolution, the leaders of the Cordeliers district founded, in April 1790, the Société des Amis des droits de l’homme et du citoyen, a popular society which would serve as an alternative means of pursuing the goals and interests of the district. This society held its meetings in the Cordeliers Convent, and quickly became known as the Club des Cordeliers. It took as its motto the phrase, Liberté, égalité, fraternité.
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