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Cordeliers

British  
/ ˌkɔːdɪˈlɪəz /

noun

  1. a political club founded in 1790 and meeting at an old Cordelier convent in Paris

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Both lived in the Cordeliers neighborhood, where the Revolution was said to have begun.

From The Wall Street Journal • Dec. 21, 2025

Dahrouch was only 15 when he started working at La Table des Cordeliers, Palladin’s restaurant in his hometown of Condom, where Palladin became the youngest chef in France to earn two Michelin stars.

From Washington Post • Aug. 17, 2019

A happy peasantry, as gay in their slightly frayed folk costumes as a Shubert chorus, swarmed about Nancy's little Church of the Cordeliers.

From Time Magazine Archive

Yet you will confess, that the vision of the reverend father Cordeliers of Orleans, in 1534, approaches the nearest to it, though still very distant.

From A Philosophical Dictionary, Volume 10 (of 10) From "The Works of Voltaire - A Contemporary Version" by Fran?ois-Marie Arouet (AKA Voltaire)

Herv� entered the Convent of the Cordeliers, not against his will, but joyfully!

From The Pocket Bible or Christian the Printer A Tale of the Sixteenth Century by Sue, Eug?ne