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3 unusual facts about Jacobin


Eliza Macauley

The late 1820s found her preaching from the pulpit of a little ‘Jacobinical’ chapel in Grub Street, and from there she moved to the platforms of Owenite co-operation, becoming, in her own words, a ‘good Co-operative woman’.

Nancy affair

During the first half of 1790 a number of acts of disobedience and small scale mutinies occurred in various units and political associations were created with links to Jacobin and other parties outside the army.

Pierre Gaveaux

On 19 January 1795, his famous Jacobin song Le Réveil du peuple (The People's Dream), to words by Jean-Marie Souriguière de Saint-Marc, was first performed.


Day of Daggers

On the Day of Daggers, Lafayette was away attempting to quell a disturbance caused by Santerre, a Jacobin and commander of the National Guard in St.Antoine, in which Santerre and a mob of about twelve hundred marched toward Vincennes, where they began to destroy part of the parapet and the dungeons that were holding prisoners from the recently fallen Bastille, with the supposed intention of massacring the prisoners.

Modérantisme

Modérantisme was denounced before the Jacobin and the Cordeliers Clubs, who then led the first attacks on it in 1794.

The Gods Are Athirst

Fiercely Jacobin, Marat and Robespierre's most faithful adherent, Évariste Gamelin soon becomes a juror on the Revolutionary Tribunal.

William Upcott

While at Wright's shop he attracted the attention of John Ireland, William Gifford, and the writers of the Anti-Jacobin who met there, and he witnessed the scuffle there between Gifford and John Wolcot, helping to eject Wolcot.


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