HistoryCLASS 10CBSE
answered 20 May 2026Jacobin Club
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- Full name: Society of the Jacobins, Friends of Freedom and Equality
- Founded: 1789, Paris (named after St. Jacob's convent)
- Members mainly from: Lower/lower-middle class small shopkeepers, artisans, petty traders, daily-wage workers, domestic servants = the sans-culottes
- Led by: Maximilien Robespierre (lawyer), also Marat, Danton, Saint-Just
- Came to power: 1793 - Launched Reign of Terror (1793–94): ~16,000–40,000 executed
- Fell: July 1794 Robespierre arrested and guillotined (Thermidorian Reaction)