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Cordeliers
i.e. “cord-wearers,” 1215. A religious order of the Minor Brothers
of St. Francis Assisi. They wore a large grey cloth vestment, girt
about the loins with a rope or cord. It was one of the mendicant
orders, not allowed to possess any property at all; even their daily
food was a gift of charity. The Cordeliers distinguished themselves in
philosophy and theology. Duns Scotus was one of their most
distinguished members.
The tale is that in the reign of St. Louis these Minorites repulsed
an army of infidels, and the king asked who those gens de cordelies
(corded people) were. From this they received their appellation.
Cordeliers
(The), 1790. A French political club in the Great
Revolution. It held its meetings in the “Convert des Cordeliers,” which
was in the “Place de l'École de Médecine.” The Cordeliers were the
rivals of the Jacobins, and numbered among its members Paré (the
president), Danton, Marat, Camille Desmoulins, Hébert, Chaumette,
Dufournoy de Villiers, Fabre d'Eglantine (a journalist), and others.
The Club of the Cordeliers was far in advance of the Jacobins, being
the first to demand the abolition of the monarchy and the establishment
of a commonwealth instead. Its leaders were put to death between March
24th and April 5th, 1794.
This club was nicknamed “The Pandemonium,” and Danton was called the
“Archfiend.” When Bailly, the mayor, locked them out of their hall in
1791, they met in the Tennis Court (Paris), and changed their name into
the “Society of the Rights of Man”; but they are best known by their
original appellation.
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