Jacobins brood

The convent of the Jacobins was a Parisian convent located street Saint-Honore, near Saint-Roch.

The Jacobins are in fact of the Dominican monks .

History

Its modest entry, with three arcades, hid almost its existence in the framing of the houses which encircled it. However the church, though simple, vast and was preceded by broad and beautiful court. The conventual buildings were pressed with its accesses. The competition between the monks Jacobins and cordeliers dated from the 13th century. While the first passed to be remained poor and sober, the seconds acquired a solid reputation of goods - alive. One sang:

Boire with jacobine

It is bottle of wine bottle of wine,

But to drink as a cordelier

is to empty the storeroom.

Curiously, this competition will remain in 1790, the monks of the two unused convents will be replaced by political clubs. The Club of Cordeliers which meets in the street of the same name (today street of the medical school) uses of a more virile language and preaches ideas more advanced than the club of the Jacobins, but is shown less exclusive as for the choice of its members.

Meeting of the Jacobins in the chapter room

The “company of the Friends of the Constitution” previously known under the name of Cercle of Breton the settles in the chapter room during the transfer of the Constituante of Versailles in Paris. Around the elected officials of Quimper had been assembled just men, especially concerned of effectiveness in their political control and who agreed to act in concert before facing the National Assembly, to take part in votes, to sanction choices.

A cohesion is done quickly around them, which give the example of a democratic good walk of the capacity. One sees there Pétion, Barnave, Volney. The circle becomes a true political laboratory.

Meeting of the Jacobins to the library

The growing number of its members, a growing activity and the soon legitimate feeling to become the conscience of the History, involve such a frequentation that it is necessary to move chapter room to the library located above the church of the Jacobins. One changes nothing the decoration and even one continues to discuss under the holy pictures. One adds simply benches for the members, small a estrade for the speech in the medium and an armchair for the president.

Meeting of the Jacobins to the church

The ultimate change which will decide name of the club: one passes from the library to the church. And the use will be essential to say: “one goes to the Jacobins”.

The political laboratory

The meetings, first of all held behind closed doors, become public as from October 1791. It is, for its members, the occasion to grind their speeches before pronouncing them at the assembly and testing their options. Formidable springboard also for launching ideas, heating the opinion and to prepare the most difficult negotiations with the whole of the Parliament which will become during the months, a commission of recording of decisions taken by a show of hands to the club. Reflexive serenity of the beginnings, one passed to passion in all its risks, of which that to follow a policy of effects, force, suicidal glare in its logic of higher bid. The convent of the Jacobins becomes one of the poles of the revolutionary life, hearth burning of the most resounding impulses of its members and confused little by little, with its excesses.

Closing of the convent

After the fall of the Jacobins on Thermidor 9 year II (July 27th 1794), to have been Jacobin is a tare, whereas it was a passport and the place is closed.

The 28 floréal year II (May 17th, 1795) Convention issues that “the site of above Jacobins, street Saint-Honore, will be devoted to the establishment of a government contract. This market will bear the name of Thermidor Last nine. ” The business trailed in length, it had to be waited until 1806 so that one bores the street of the Market-Saint-Honore whose end was occupied by a market (current place of the Market-Saint-Honore)

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