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The Jacobin Club were a political group founded in Paris, France in August of 1790.[1] Moderate at their formation, the club later became notorious for the Reign of Terror which they implemented during the French Revolution.[2]

References

  1. Hanson page 134
  2. Barnes page 361

Bibliography

Paul R. Hanson. The Jacobin Republic under fire: the Federalist Revolt in the French Revolution. Pennsylvania State University Press. 31 July 2003. ISBN 978-0271022819 Gregory Fremont-Barnes. Encyclopedia of the Age of Political Revolutions and New Ideologies, 1760-1815. Greenwood Press. 2007. ISBN 978-0-313-33447-4