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See also:PEUILLANTS, See also:CLUB OF THE , a See also:political association which played a prominent See also:part during the See also:French Revolution. It was founded on the 16t*i of See also:July 1791 by several members of the Jacobin Club, who refused to sign a See also:petition presented by this See also:body, demanding the deposition of See also:- LOUIS
- LOUIS (804–876)
- LOUIS (893–911)
- LOUIS, JOSEPH DOMINIQUE, BARON (1755-1837)
- LOUIS, or LEWIS (from the Frankish Chlodowich, Chlodwig, Latinized as Chlodowius, Lodhuwicus, Lodhuvicus, whence-in the Strassburg oath of 842-0. Fr. Lodhuwigs, then Chlovis, Loys and later Louis, whence Span. Luiz and—through the Angevin kings—Hungarian
Louis XVI. Among the dissident members were B. Barere, and E. J. Sieyes, who were later joined by other politicians, among them being See also:Dupont de See also:Nemours. The name of Feuillants was popularly given to this See also:group of men, because they met in the See also:fine buildings which had been occupied by the religious See also:- ORDER
- ORDER (through Fr. ordre, for earlier ordene, from Lat. ordo, ordinis, rank, service, arrangement; the ultimate source is generally taken to be the root seen in Lat. oriri, rise, arise, begin; cf. " origin ")
- ORDER, HOLY
order bearing this name, in the See also:rue See also:Saint-Honore, near the See also:Place See also:Vendome, in See also:Paris. The members of the club preserved the See also:title of Amis de la Constitution, as being a sufficient indication of the See also:line they intended to pursue. This consisted in opposing everything not contained in the Constitution; in their See also:opinion, the latter was in need of no modification, and they hated alike all those who were opposed to it, whether emigres or See also:Jacobins; they affected to avoid all political discussion, and called themselves merely a " conservative See also:assembly."
This attitude they maintained after the Constituent Assembly had been succeeded by the Legislative, but not many of the new deputies became members of the club. With the rapid growth of extreme democratic ideas the Feuillants soon began to be looked upon as reactionaries, and to be classed with " aristocrats." They did, indeed, represent the See also:aristocracy of See also:wealth, for. they had to pay a subscription of four louis, a large sum at that See also:- TIME (0. Eng. Lima, cf. Icel. timi, Swed. timme, hour, Dan. time; from the root also seen in " tide," properly the time of between the flow and ebb of the sea, cf. O. Eng. getidan, to happen, " even-tide," &c.; it is not directly related to Lat. tempus)
- TIME, MEASUREMENT OF
- TIME, STANDARD
time, besides six livres for attendance. Moreover, the luxury with which they surrounded themselves, and the restaurant which they had annexed to their club, seemed to See also:mock the misery of the See also:half-starved See also:proletariat, and added to the suspicion with which they were viewed, especially after the popular triumphs of the 20th of See also:June and the loth of See also:August 1792 (see FRENCH REVOLUTION). A few days after the insurrection of the loth of August, the papers of the Feuillants were seized, and a See also:list was published containing the names of 841 members proclaimed as suspects. This was the See also:death-See also:blow of the dub. It had made an See also:attempt, though a weak one, to oppose the forward See also:march of the Revolution, but, unlike the Jacobins, had never sent out branches into the provinces. The name of Feuillants, as a party designation, survived the club. It was applied to those wl advocated a policy of " cowardly moderation," and feuillantisme was associated with aristocratic in the mouths of the sansculottes.
The See also:act of separation of the Feuillants from the Jacobins was published in a pamphlet dated the 16th of July 1791, beginning with the words, See also:Les Membres de l'assemblee rationale . (Paris, 1791). The statutes of the club were also published in Paris. See also A. See also:Aulard, Histoire politique de la Revolution franraise (Paris, 1903), 2nd ed., p. 153.
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