Feuillants Club

Created: 1791

The Feuillants were a moderate splinter group of the Paris Jacobin Club. In July 1791 the majority of the latter's membership left in protest at a vocal minority's opposition to the Constituent Assembly's attempts to protect the king in the wake of his failed Flight to Varennes the previous month. However, within a couple of months political momentum had shifted back to the Jacobin Club and a leadership group who would be central to the next, increasingly radical phase of the Revolution: Robespierre, Brissot, Desmoulins and Collot d'Herbois among others. The Feuillants name came from the club's meetings being held in what had previously been the Feuillant monastery in central Paris.

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Feuillant_(political_group)

Appears in these Letters:

1792

14 August: The August Revolution: The Fall of the Monarchy

The summer of 1792 was a perfect storm for the French monarchy, with rising demands for a Republic amid military defeats and the lasting resentment...

1793

5 June: Reflections on Political Repression

The duchess explains how the balance of political power in the capital has recently shifted in a more radical direction, and considers the...