Panthéon Club

The Panthéon club was a French revolutionary political club founded in Paris the 6 November 1795. Its official name was Union of Friends of the Republic (Réunion des Amis de la République). It was composed of former terrorists and inconditional Jacobins coming from the petite bourgeoisie.

The club met on the Montagne Sainte-Geneviève, in the former royal Abbey of St Genevieve, near the Panthéon, now Lycée Henri-IV.

Among the founders was René Lebois, printer and journalist of the Orateur plébéien, maybe a Barras agent. The club was attended by those who wanted to redirect the Directory policy toward the left in the way of the defeat of the 13 Vendémiaire royalist insurrection. However the politÎcs of the club were initially rather moderate and respectful of legality in refusing to receive the ineligible National Convention members.

But the club soon attracted a number of former Montagnards, including Jean-Pierre-André Amar and Pierre Joseph Duhem, former members of the Committee of General Security, Pierre-Antoine Antonelle, Sylvain Maréchal, Restif de La Bretonne, Jean-Nicolas Pache, and Robert Lindet, as well as Philippe Buonarroti, a Babeuf friend, who moved the club in the direction of radical republicanism.

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