Society of 1789 Club de 1789 | |
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| Founded | 1790; 235 years ago (1790) |
| Dissolved | 1791; 234 years ago (1791) |
| Succeeded by | Club des Feuillants |
| Headquarters | Palais-Royal,Paris |
| Ideology | Constitutional monarchy Classical liberalism[1] Conservative liberalism Moderatism |
| Political position | Centre[2] |
| Colors | Grey (customary) Blue White Red (cockade of France) |
TheSociety of 1789 (French:Club de 1789), or thePatriotic Society of 1789 (French:Société patriotique de 1789), was a political club of theFrench Revolution inaugurated during a festivebanquet held atPalais-Royal in May 13, 1790[3] by moremoderate elements of theClub Breton.[4] At their height of influence, it was the second most important club after theJacobin Club.
Among its members wereJean Sylvain Bailly,Mayor of Paris;Gilbert du Motier, Marquis de Lafayette,commander-in-chief of theNational Guard;François Alexandre Frédéric, duc de la Rochefoucauld-Liancourt,Isaac René Guy le Chapelier,Honoré Gabriel Riqueti, comte de Mirabeau,Emmanuel Joseph Sieyès,Charles Maurice de Talleyrand-Périgord andNicolas de Condorcet.
The club kept an apartment in Palais-Royal where banquets were held. Its members were consideredmoderate and preferred forFrance to remain aconstitutional monarchy in opposition to therepublicans.
The popularity of the club eventually decreased the same year as it was founded and the remaining audience went to form theClub des Feuillants, founded 18 July 1791.[5]
... Hassenfratz, Vandermonde, and Lavoisier were all members of Condorcet's liberal "Club of 1789," and Monge, ...
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