Jacobins in a sentence

That means a second recommendation for The Black Jacobins – it really is a must-read – but also some other reading-list additions.

White-necked jacobins can feed in a variety of different habitats, and like other hummingbirds, have long bills and tongues specialized for flowers.

David was enlisted by the Society of Friends of the Constitution, the body that would eventually form the Jacobins, to enshrine this symbolic event.

Despite his claim that the lines between the two may be blurred, Gramsci rejects the state-worship that results from identifying political society with civil society, as was done by the Jacobins and Fascists.

He was found guilty by the Convention led by the Jacobins who rejected the idea of keeping him as a hostage.

Little more than a third of the deputies were present, almost all of them Jacobins.

Meanwhile, the men who controlled the Jacobins rejected the Revolutionary Republican Women as dangerous rabble-rousers.

Note that he holds his heart in his left hand – it was buried separately at the now-demolished church of the Couvent des Jacobins de la rue Saint-Jacques in Paris.

The English who supported the French Revolution during its early stages (or even throughout) were early known as Jacobins.

The extension of civil war and the advance of foreign armies on national territory produced a political crisis and increased the already present rivalry between the Girondins and the more radical Jacobins.

The Jacobins had a significant presence in the National Convention, and were dubbed 'the Mountain' for their seats in the uppermost part of the chamber.

The Jacobins identified themselves with the popular movement and the sans-culottes, who in turn saw popular violence as a political right.

The National Assembly had split between conservatives and radical Jacobins, both vying for political power.

They found home in Les Jacobins.

This encouraged the Jacobins to seize power through a parliamentary coup, backed up by force effected by mobilising public support against the Girondist faction, and by utilising the mob power of the Parisian sans-culottes.

This instance is notable in more ways than one because it eventually led David to finally become involved in politics as he joined the Jacobins.

Throughout the Revolution, other women such as Pauline Léon and her Society of Revolutionary Republican Women supported the radical Jacobins, staged demonstrations in the National Assembly and participated in the riots, often using armed force.

Under war conditions and with national survival seemingly at stake, the Montagnard Jacobins under Maximilien Robespierre centralized denunciations, trials, and executions.