HistoryClass 10CBSE
Jacobin Club
Full name: Society of the Jacobins, Friends of Freedom and EqualityFounded: 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-culottesLed by: Maximilien Robespierre (lawyer), also Marat, Danton, Saint-JustCame to power: 1793 - Launched Reign of Terror (1793–94): ~16,000–40,000 executedFell: July 1794 Robespierre arrested and guillotined (Thermidorian Reaction)
