where is jacobins club and who was the leader of jacobin club
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In France , during old regime and after that also people used to discuss governement policies and their own plan of action in Political Clubs. The must successful cub was Jacobin Club which got it's name from convent of St.Jacob in Paris.
The members of Jacobin Club mainly belonged to less prosperous sections of the society which included shopkeepers, cooks,artisans, shoemakers, printers, servants, dailywage workers etc.
The leader of Jacobin club was
Maximilan Robespierre.
Jacobins dressed differently by wearing long striped trousers similar to those worn by dock workers.
It was a way of declaring the end of thr power holded by the weareres of knee breeches. Jacobins came to known as
'San-Culottes' [ those without knee breeches ]. San-Culottes men wore a red cap which symbolized 'liberty'.
The Jacobin Club was formed by Maximilian Robespierre. One of the influential political clubs that formed by Maximilian Robespierre during the French revolution was the Jacobins club. They were considered to be the radical revolutionaries who planned the rise of the French revolution and the downfall of the King.
Its purpose was to protect the gains of the Revolution against a possible aristocratic reaction. The club soon admitted nondeputies—usually prosperous bourgeois and men of letters—and acquired affiliates throughout France. By July 1790 there were about 1,200 members in the Parisian club and 152 affiliate clubs.
Maximilien Robespierre, the architect of the French Revolution's Reign of Terror, is overthrown and arrested by the National Convention. As the leading member of the Committee of Public Safety from 1793, Robespierre encouraged the execution, mostly by guillotine, of more than 17,000 enemies of the Revolution.