discuss the ideology of jacobin club. what was the significance of Sans- cullotes? how did the jacobin club occupy the rule of France.
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During French Revolution, a radical club called Jacobin club that pushed for republicanism, universal suffrage, equality before law, widespread education and elimination of clergy and noble privileges was formed. All of the mentioned above were their ideologies.
The sans-culotte were worn by the members of the Jacobin club to separate themselves from the richer or noble sections of society.
In the National Convention, which proclaimed the French republic, the Jacobins and other opponents of the Girondists sat in the raised seats and were called the Mountain. Their leaders—Maximilien Robespierre and Louis de Saint-Just, among others—relied mainly on the strength of the Paris commune and the Parisian sans-culottes. After the fall of the Girondists (June, 1793), for which the Jacobins were largely responsible, the Jacobin leaders instituted the Reign of Terror. Under Robespierre, who came to dominate the government, the Terror was used not only against counterrevolutionaries, but also against former allies of the Jacobins, such as the Cordeliers and the Dantonists (followers of Georges Danton).