Club of the Pantheon

The Club of the Pantheon , inaugurated the November 6th 1795 (25 Brumaire Year IV), is a club made up former terrorists and of Jacobins unconditional all resulting from the lower middle class. It names initially “Meeting of the Friends of the Republic”.

The club of the Pantheon initially shows very respecteux legality, almost conformist, while refusing to receive the deputies of the Convention declared ineligible for better proving its attachment at the new institutions.

The club attracts many people quickly: it counts 934 members the 9 Frimaire, then quickly 2000 members. In Ventôse year IV, the club has 2400 members.

But several of these not re-elected deputies, such Jean-Pierre-Andre Amar, formerly member of the Committee of general security, as well as terrorists like Darthé, ex-indicter with the revolutionary Tribunal, or Germain, former lieutenant of hussards, who revolve in the entourage of the pantheonists, nourish a secret ambition quickly: that to convince more or less legally the government to give up the Constitution of year III to find the most convincing accents of the constitutional texts of 1793. Without belonging to the club of the Pantheon, Gracchus Babeuf is one of the principal speakers of this club, where it develops its doctrines of the " égalité" , regarded as the base of the Communism, and that it publishes in its newspaper, the Powerful orator of the people . This newspaper is frequently applauded the club, whose meetings are often chaired by Filippo Buonarotti, friend of Babeuf.

The prohibition of the Club the 8 Ventôse year IV is one of the elements which will bring the creation of the Conjuration of Equal the.

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