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Cordeliers (kôrdəlyā`), political club of the French Revolution. Founded (1790) as the Society of the Friends of the Rights of Man and of the Citizen, it was called after its original meeting place, the suppressed monastery of the Cordeliers (Franciscan Recollects). It provided a political base for Georges Danton Danton, Georges Jacques (zhōrzh zhäk däNtôN`)
..... Click the link for more information. and Jean Paul Marat Marat, Jean Paul (zhäN pōl märä`), 1743–93, French revolutionary, b. Switzerland.
..... Click the link for more information. . In 1792–93, after Danton left the club, it was instrumental in the destruction of the Girondists Girondists (jĭrŏn`dĭsts) or Girondins
..... Click the link for more information. . After Marat's assassination the club was led by Jacques René Hébert Hébert, Jacques René (zhäk rənā` ābĕr`), 1757–94, French journalist and revolutionary.
..... Click the link for more information. and it drifted to the extreme left. Controlling the Paris commune, the Hébertists seemed a threat to the power of Maximilien Robespierre Robespierre, Maximilien Marie Isidore (mäksēmēlyăN` märē` ēzēdôr` rôbĕspyĕr`)
..... Click the link for more information. , who had them executed during the Reign of Terror Reign of Terror, 1793–94, period of the French Revolution characterized by a wave of executions of presumed enemies of the state. Directed by the Committee of Public Safety, the Revolutionary government's Terror was essentially a war dictatorship, instituted to
..... Click the link for more information. . The club dissolved after Hébert was executed (Mar., 1794).

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