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pularity, and were re-elected, with Robespierre, members of the Con- 
vention for the trial of the King. 
On the nicur and Lert sides of the Assembly-House, there was a 
jeu de mots (a play on words) very commonly repeated before the reign 
of terror began, under Robespierre, in the polite and fashionable 
‘circles of Paris. Le Coté droit est Gauche: mais le Coté Gauche n'est 
pas droit,—the right side is the left (or wrong) but the left side is not 
the right. ; 
Jacozins. A number of gentlemen, from Britanny, joined chiefly 
by several journalists, and other men of letters, had formed themselves 
into a club for the discussion of political subjects ; and were called the 
Breton Club. Towards the end of 1789, they were distinguished by 
the appellation of Jacobins, from a. convent of monks called Jacobins, 
where they held their meetings. 
Tue Jacosin Cuvs, established at Paris, and composed of the 
ringleaders of the revolution, excited the inhabitants of all the other 
towns in France to insurrection. They corresponded directly with about 
eleven hundred kindred, or, as they called them, Affiliated Clubs: 
which eleven hundred clubs, had each their circle of affiliated clubs, in 
inferior towns and villages, with which they corresponded... 
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Grronpists. The deputies of the departments of the Girond ; 
that is, Bourdeaux and the country around it; being the course of the 
Garron. Like the Constitutionalists, or Friends to Limited, Monarchy, 
they wished to steer a kind of middle course between the two ex- 
tremes; and, like them too, after enjoying, under Louis XVI. all the 
authority of government, were crushed in the contest between the two 
opposite and violent parties. ; 
Feuittants. Another political club like that of the Jacobins; but 
of which the members were men of moderation. They maintained for 
a time, an unavailing opposition to the Jacobins; by whom they were 
at length, in 1791, driven out of their hall by force, and finally dis- 
persed. Such was the cLus-Law of the Jacobins, 
Corpvetiers. Another club, composed of men even more 
violent than Jacobins ; and, for the most part, of the lower classes of 
the people. They were not in opposition to the Jacobins, but main- 
tained the same doctrines. Though their society was not so com- 
pletely organized, and though they had not so extensive a correspon- 
dence, the club of the Cordeliers was kept up nearly as long as that 
of the Jacobins. At the head of the Cordeliers were a number of 
Journalists. 
Brissotins. So-called from the Journalist, and author of various 
works, Brissot; who held a distinguished place among the Giron- 
dists: from which circumstance the terms Girondist and Brissotine 
are 
