Jacobins

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1. An extreme radical party during the French Revolution named for the place where its founders first met, a convent of Jacobin friars. It was led by Robespierre.

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In general, a member of an extremist or radical group is often called a “Jacobin.”

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These aspiring Jacobins, in other words, wanted to silence an advocate of campus free speech—thereby proving his point.

From The Wall Street Journal ● May 20, 2026

The currency was primarily supported by a political group known as the Jacobins, a party whose power waned throughout the revolution.

From Science Daily ● Sep. 18, 2023

Founded in 1789, the Jacobins quickly became the most influential of these clubs.

From Textbooks ● Dec. 14, 2022

With France’s increasing radicalism, anticlericalism, and disorder, it seemed obvious to Morse that the French Jacobins, the political faction that seized control of the nation in 1792, were simply Illuminati by another name.

From Slate ● Oct. 24, 2022

And as soon as the assembly had met, the disgruntled Jacobins, who thought that he was not radical enough, had openly accused him of financial irregularities.

From The Rise of the Dutch Kingdom 1795-1813 by Hendrik Willem Van Loon