Article: The Cordelier Club.

The political society known as the Cordelier Club was first organized in April 1790. It took its name from the fact that it met at a former Franciscan monastery on the Rue des ("street of the") Cordeliers. Its membership dues were about one-half that of the Jacobin, the most influential political club at the time. From the start, members of the Cordelier Club were more radical than those who belonged to the Jacobin Club. A key demand was universal suffrage, the right of all men to vote.

The Cordelier was popular in the neighborhood of Paris known as Saint-Antoine, the district from which many combatants of the Revolution hailed. Among its members were many of the ...

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