Club of Cordeliers

The club of Cordeliers or Company of the Friends of the human rights and the citizen is a founded political company with Paris the April 27th 1790 and which is established in the old refectory of the Couvent of Cordeliers (become today cultural center of the college of the universities of Paris).

History of the club of Cordeliers

The club is posed into true supervisor of the assembly and carries a glance criticizes on this one. The club also proposes to help the poor ones: contrary to the Jacobin S, the entry is free there. One enters to the club without having to pour contribution: a flag tended to the exit is given the responsability to collect the gifts.

More radical than the Club of the Jacobins, its members took a very active share with the insurrectionary movements which occurred under the constituent Assembly, the legislative Assemblée and the national Convention. It is him which organized the manifestation of Field-of-March, the July 17th 1791; it is him which pushed back the Constitution of 1791 and required the forfeiture of the king after his escape and its arrest in Varennes; it is still him which was the craftsman of the day of August 10th 1792, which brought the fall of the royalty in France. It is again him which it May 22nd 1793 fomented an insurrection which brought the fall of the Girondins to National Convention.

After the fall of Of Gironde, the club was divided into Indulgents (Dantonistes) and Exagérés (Hébertistes, authors of the law of the suspects and in favor of a dictatorship of the Commune - not to confuse with the Enragés of Jacques Roux). All and sundry perished on the scaffold the March 24th and April 5th 1794; Marat was assassinated by Charlotte Corday the July 13rd 1793.

The club of Cordeliers overcome by the club of the Jacobins became a dependence of this one but remained longer than to him, being closed only in April 1795.

Famous members

Origin of the name " Cordeliers"

Cordeliers was the nickname of the monks Franciscains, who, equipped in a very simple way, carried as a belt a simple cord. The club of the Jacobins held his nickname of the convent Dominicain where it had its meetings. In rather ironic manner, Dominican and Franciscains had been rival orders with the Middle Ages, competition which one finds between the two clubs, both anticlericals.

The chart of member of the club of Cordeliers represented an open eye: " the eye of revolutionary vigilance large ouvert"

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