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| | Jacobin Club |
 | | The Jacobin Club, the most famous of the political clubs of the French Revolution, had its origin in the Club Breton, which formed at Versailles shortly after the opening of the States General[?] in 1789. |
 | | It was at first composed exclusively of deputies from Brittany, but was soon joined by others from various parts of France, and counted among its early members Mirabeau, Sieyès, Barnave, Pétion[?], the Abbé Grégoire[?], Charles Lameth[?], Alexandre Lameth[?], Robespierre, the duc d'Aiguillon[?], and La Revellière-Lépeaux[?]. |
 | | At this time its meetings occurred in secret and few traces remain of what took place at them. |
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