Jacobin Club

Deputies from Brittany meet during the Estates General and create the political network that later develops into the Jacobin Club.

Sieyes helped organize the Club Breton, an early political network that later contributed to the Jacobin movement.

Liberal deputies from the Breton Club (the forerunner to the Jacobin movement) believed the peasants could only be calmed by a grand gesture from the Assembly, such as a partial surrender of feudal rights.

After the royal family is brought to Paris the Breton network begins meeting near the Jacobin convent in Paris.

Robespierre becomes associated with the Society of the Friends of the Constitution as radical political debate grows in Paris.

Barras joined the Jacobin political movement as his support for the Revolution became more radical.

The Society of the Friends of the Constitution becomes widely known as the Jacobin Club from its meeting place in the former Jacobin convent.

The Jacobin Club expands its influence through speeches correspondence and affiliated societies.

Affiliated Jacobin societies begin linking Parisian politics with provincial revolutionary opinion.

Petion and other members debate constitutional monarchy representation and popular sovereignty within the club.

Robespierre argues against property qualifications and gains support among radical democrats in the club.

Radical newspapers help spread arguments also heard in the Jacobin and Cordelier political circles.

Brissot uses club debate and journalism to promote revolutionary reform and a more assertive foreign policy.

Barnave defended the Jacobin Club against constitutional monarchist rivals during a major political dispute.

The Jacobin Club becomes a forum where doubts about monarchy and royal trust increasingly appear.

Robespierre argues that the kings flight reveals a deep crisis of trust in the monarchy.

Argues that the king's flight exposes a grave crisis of trust in the monarchy.

After the kings flight to Varennes Robespierre and other Jacobins question the future of constitutional monarchy.

Charles Lameth joined the Feuillant split from the Jacobin Club.

Moderate constitutional monarchists leave the Jacobin Club and form the Feuillant Club after the crisis over the king.

Antoine Pierre Joseph Marie Barnave joined moderate constitutional monarchists who leave the Jacobin Club for the Feuillants.

The Champ de Mars massacre deepens the division between moderate constitutionalists and more radical Jacobins.

The massacre deepens the split between radical Jacobins and moderate constitutionalists.

Brissot and allied members argue that war can spread revolutionary principles and expose internal enemies.

Participates in Jacobin politics and local National Guard activity in Corsica.

Maximilien Francois Marie Robespierre opposed Brissotin arguments for revolutionary war.

Maximilien Francois Marie Robespierre opposed the War of Liberation because foreign countries are not ready for liberation.

Napoleon I helped found the Jacobin Club. Appointed Member of Ajaccio Jacobin Club.

Maximilien Francois Marie Robespierre became a member of the Jacobin Club.

Army officers swear an oath of loyalty to the National Assembly.

Robespierre warns in the club that war may strengthen generals and endanger the Revolution.

Brissotins and future Girondins remain influential in the Jacobin network before later conflict with the Mountain.

Jacobins and Girondins debate the war after France declares war on Austria.

Announces to the Assembly that the Jacobins are a state within a state.

Appears at the bar of the Assembly and demands the dissolution of the Jacobins.

Raises a force from the National Guard to march on the Jacobins but fails.

The fall of the monarchy after the insurrection of 10 August strengthens radical clubs and sections in Paris.

The National Convention abolishes monarchy and Jacobin deputies become central to republican politics.

The new French Republic creates a political setting in which the Jacobin Club becomes more openly republican.

Saint-Just enters national politics and becomes associated with the radical Jacobin Mountain.

Saint-Just used his first major Convention speech to argue that Louis XVI should be treated as an enemy rather than an ordinary citizen.

Robespierre supported the death sentence for Louis XVI, arguing that the former king had betrayed the nation.

Leads a pro-war faction in the Jacobin Party and founds the Girondins.

Madame Roland and her husband defected from the Jacobins in early 1792 and, with Jacques-Pierre Brissot, formed the moderate Girondin party.

Saint-Just argues that the former king must be judged as an enemy of the people and the Revolution.

The execution of Louis XVI intensifies conflict between Jacobins Girondins and foreign enemies of the Republic.

Marat and radical Jacobins attack Girondin leaders as civil war and foreign invasion threaten the Republic.

A Jacobin committee of Marat and Montagnards calls Paris "to arms" against the Girondins.

The Jacobins assumed more and more power during the spring of 1793, with the support of the Parisian mob, which overawed the Convention, culminating in a coup at the end of May.

The Jacobins will hold power until the summer of 1794, and they repeatedly purged the Convention of those they held disloyal to the Republic.

ending with a widespread program of execution, the Reign of Terror in their last months.

The Jacobins will hold power until the summer of 1794, and they repeatedly purged the Convention of those they held disloyal to the Republic, ending with a widespread program of execution, the Reign of Terror in their last months.

Robespierre promoted a Republic of Virtue while Jacobin rule intensified repression before his overthrow on 9 Thermidor.

Paris militants and the Mountain force the arrest of leading Girondins after months of struggle with Jacobins.

Stabs Marat to death in his bath. Stabs Jean-Paul Marat to death in his bath. A reaction to the Jacobin challenge to the Girondists.

Stabbed to death in his bath by Charlotte Corday, a Girondist and anti-Jacobin.

Marat is assassinated by Charlotte Corday and becomes a martyr figure for radical revolutionaries.

The leader of the Lyons Jacobins is executed.

The Committee is already entering a more powerful and active phase, which would see it become a de facto dictatorship alongside its similarly powerful partner, the Committee of General Security.

Robespierre joined the Committee of Public Safety as it expanded control over wartime policy, the Terror and the levee en masse.

Robespierre joins the Committee of Public Safety while Jacobin influence over revolutionary government increases.

The Committee is responsible for interpreting and applying the decrees of the National Convention, and thus for implementing some of the most stringent policies of the Terror and the levee en masse.

Hebert and militant allies press the Convention and Jacobins toward harsher measures against enemies.

Popular pressure places terror on the order of the day as Jacobin dominated government confronts war and revolt.

The Law of Suspects expands arrests of those considered enemies of the Revolution during Jacobin rule.

Collot dHerbois becomes associated with severe repression after the federalist revolt in Lyon.

Fouche helps impose revolutionary punishment in Lyon after the citys revolt against Paris.

Carrier conducts harsh repression in Nantes during the struggle against counterrevolution in the west.

The broad and centralized powers of the Committee are codified by the Law of 14 Frimaire (also known as the Law of Revolutionary Government).

The Law of 14 Frimaire centralises revolutionary government under the Convention and its committees.

Couthon supports Robespierre and Saint-Just in promoting virtue discipline and revolutionary government.

Hebert and leading Hebertists are executed after being accused of conspiracy against the revolutionary government.

Danton and his allies are arrested after criticism of the Terror and the Committee of Public Safety.

Desmoulins is imprisoned with the Dantonists after calling for clemency and attacking revolutionary excess.

Conflict grows between the Jacobin leadership and Hebertist militants over dechristianisation and popular pressure.

Danton and several allies are executed leaving Robespierre and the committees more isolated.

Robespierre promotes the Festival of the Supreme Being as part of his vision of civic virtue.

The Law of 22 Prairial, proposed by the Committee of Public Safety and enacted on June 10, 1794, went further in establishing the iron control of the Revolutionary Tribunal and, above it, the Committee's of Public Safety and General Security.

The Law of 22 Prairial accelerates Revolutionary Tribunal procedures and increases fear of political purge.

Robespierre addresses the National Convention and warns of unnamed conspirators within the government.

Robespierre refuses to name the deputies he accuses and increases fear among members of the Convention.

Saint-Just prepares to defend the Committee of Public Safety as opposition to Robespierre grows.

Saint-Just prepares to defend Robespierre and the authority of the Committee of Public Safety.

Couthon is taken into custody as one of the central Robespierrist leaders.

Saint-Just is arrested with Robespierre and Couthon after the Convention turns against them.

The Convention orders Robespierre arrested after deputies shout down his attempts to speak.

Robespierre is brought to the Hotel de Ville as the Commune tries to create an armed uprising.

The Jacobin Club is closed after the execution of Robespierre and other members on 9 Thermidor of the year II (27 July 1794).

Robespierre is denounced in the Convention on 9 Thermidor and the Jacobin political system begins to collapse.

Amar aligns with opponents of Robespierre as the Convention turns against the Jacobin leadership.

Couthon is arrested with Robespierre and other leading Robespierrists.

Le Bas remains loyal to Robespierre during the crisis and is arrested with the faction.

Saint-Just is interrupted before he can deliver his defence of Robespierre.

Convention troops capture Robespierre after the Commune defence collapses.

Le Bas kills himself as Convention troops close in on the Robespierrists.

Couthon is executed as one of the principal Robespierrist leaders.

Robespierre is executed and the Jacobin Club loses its dominant position in revolutionary politics.

Robespierre is executed by guillotine on 10 Thermidor after being declared an outlaw.

Saint-Just is executed with Robespierre and other allies after the Thermidorian revolt.

Saint-Just is executed with Robespierre and other leading supporters.

The ultimate political vehicle for the Jacobin movement was the Reign of Terror overseen by the Committee of Public Safety, who were given executive powers to purify and unify the Republic.

Robespierre tries to found the Republic of Virtue, until the Jacobins last purge, 9 Thermidor, in July 1794, executed Robespierre himself.

Jacobin rule increasingly depended on the Committee of Public Safety until Robespierre’s overthrow weakened the movement.

The Reign of Terror reached its political peak under the emergency committees before Robespierre’s fall on 9 Thermidor.

The National Convention orders the Jacobin Club in Paris closed during the Thermidorian reaction.

The Jacobin Club is closed as the Thermidorian Reaction weakens radical political organisation.

Freron encourages young anti Jacobin militants during the reaction against the Terror.

Tallien supports the campaign against surviving Robespierrists and radical Jacobins.

Robespierre tries to found the Republic of Virtue, until the Jacobins last purge, 9 Thermidor, in July 1794, executed Robespierre himself.

The ultimate political vehicle for the Jacobin movement was the Reign of Terror overseen by the Committee of Public Safety, who were given executive powers to purify and unify the Republic.

Thermidor is an alliance between those who felt Robespierre had gone too far and those who felt he had not gone far enough they were unable to maintain their control of the Convention.

eased out of power and the Jacobins dissolve.

Robespierre’s overthrow on 9 Thermidor united opponents of different factions and began a rapid decline in Jacobin power.

Talleyrand resigned as Minister of Foreign Relations after political attacks increased during the renewed Jacobin influence of 1799.

As Minister of Police, Fouche closed the meeting place at the Manege used by the revived Jacobin political club.