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

Others, such as Renart le Bestourné, Le Dit des Cordeliers, Frère Denise, Le Dit de l'Erberie, are poems of the Fabliau kind.

From A Short History of French Literature by Saintsbury, George

Fabre was president and secretary of the club of the Cordeliers, and belonged also to the Jacobin club.

From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 10, Slice 1 "Evangelical Church Conference" to "Fairbairn, Sir William" by Various