Society of the Friends of the Rights of Man and of the Citizen

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The Society of the Friends of the Rights of Man and of the Citizen, commonly known as the Cordeliers Club, was a radical popular political club during the French Revolution that championed direct democracy, social equality, and revolutionary vigilance.

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instanceOf French Revolution political group
political club
revolutionary organization
activeDuring French Revolution
aim defense of the rights of man and of the citizen
promotion of direct political action by citizens
surveillance of public officials
alsoKnownAs Cordeliers Club
associatedWithEvent Champ de Mars massacre
petitioning for the abolition of the monarchy
country France
dissolvedInPeriod Thermidorian Reaction
foundedInPeriod 1789–1790
historicalEra Age of Revolution
linked to: Age of Revolutions
ideology anticlericalism
direct democracy
popular sovereignty
republicanism
revolutionary vigilance
social equality
influenced popular revolutionary movement in Paris
languageOfOrganization French
legacy symbol of radical popular democracy in the French Revolution
locatedIn Paris
meetingPlace former Cordeliers Convent, Paris
membershipPolicy low membership fees
open to broad popular participation
namedAfter Cordeliers Convent
notableMember Camille Desmoulins
Georges Danton
Jacques Hébert
Jean-Paul Marat
Pierre-Gaspard Chaumette
opposedTo constitutional monarchy
monarchy
organizationalForm open popular club
politicalPosition far-left
radical
relationshipTo rival of the Jacobin Club
socialBase Parisian artisans
sans-culottes
small shopkeepers
urban workers
supported freedom of the press
popular participation in government
right of insurrection
social welfare measures
universal male suffrage

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Cordeliers Club alternativeName Society of the Friends of the Rights of Man and of the Citizen