The+Jacobins+Club

=//**The Jacobins** //= ==In 1792-people involved in the government change were members of a radical political organization,the jacobin club. ==
 * He was the leader and one of the most prominent jacobins,as club members were called,was Jean-paul Marat.Jean edited a newspapaer called L'Ami du peuple (friend of people).He called for death on those who suported the king.
 * He was born in switzerland.At 16 years old, Marat left his parents to study medicine in France and later, in England. He was a pretty renowned scientist; he worked on physics and published some of his works on energy from fire and on electricity.His work was criticized by the French famous "Academy des Sciences" and his membership to the famous institution was rejected several times.On July 14th, 1789 at the Storming of the Bastille, Marat declared that five to six hundreds heads should be cut in order to install a new regime. His goal was to eliminate all the people near or far related to the king. In 1792, he talked about his wish to see a new dictatorship installed where the true values of the Revolution will be implemented. His extremist ideas were accused to have led to the massacre of September 1792.

Marat bieng killed by Corday

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Marat was a thin,high-strung,sickly man his writing stirred up the voilent mood in paris. since he had a skin desease,he often relaxed in a cold bath.during the summer of 1793,charlotte Corday,a supporter of a rival faction whose members had been jailed.once inside merat's private chambers,she fattaly stabbed him as he bathed.for her crime,Corday went to the guilotine.Marat let her in just because he conducted most of his affairs in the bath tub.she kille him with a kitchen nife with a 6 inch blade,it pierced his lung and his aorta.The Republic gave him a national honor with grandiose funeral. On his tombstone was engraved these words, "Here sleeps Marat, the friend of the people who was killed by the enemies of the people on July 13th, 1793".On September 21st, 1794 Marat was officialy declared an "Immortel" and exhumed to the Pantheon. ======

Robespierre Maximilien (1758-94)

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nicknamed "the Incorruptible," was the leader of the Jacobins who took over the leadership of France during the French Revolution. He and the other committee members ordered the execution of the King, Louis XVI, for treason in January 1793.Robespierre, as an enlightened thinker, brought revolutionary ideas of equality, liberty and fraternity to the minds of the French people already put under pressure by poverty, exacerbated by an incapable king and an exorbitant queen.During the revolution, he also made France a secular state. He attempted to rename the months of the year and make 1794 the first year of French history. This did not catch on though, and his attempt to institute a new "festival of the saint" was also unsuccessful.Robespierre allowed the death of thousands of ======

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French persons - men, women and children - during the course of the revolution.He died in 1794, the final victim of the revolution - taken by the guillotine to which he had sent thousands.Robespierre was a lawyer and a politician who was very good at making speeches; at his own trial he delivered a very convincing two hour long speech in his defense. When he was 17, he was chosen out of 500 pupils to deliver a welcome speech to the King (ironically he eventually supported the King's execution later.He was the eldest of four children,his mother died in child birth when he was young and his father, distressed at the loss of his wife, vanished when Robespierre was eight years old, leaving the four children to be cared for by their paternal grandfather and aunts. ======

club house door of the Jacobins