Cordeliers

British  

/ ˌkɔːdɪˈlɪəz /

noun

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

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Example Sentences

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

Then, 'Out upon the petitioners, the Jacobins and the Cordeliers!'

From The Sword of Honor, volumes 1 & 2 or The Foundation of the French Republic, A Tale of The French Revolution by Sue, Eug?ne

"Also," said the watchman, "there was another, who had come from the south with a retinue, now lodged in the cells of the ancient monastery of the Cordeliers."

From The White Plumes of Navarre A Romance of the Wars of Religion by Crockett, S. R. (Samuel Rutherford)