The Jacobins, also called the Jacobin Club, was one of the seventeenth-century French political parties, which would become immensely popular for its confrontations against the Girondins, during the sessions of the Assembly of the National Convention, the entity that was in charge of of the legislative and executive affairs of the First Republic of France. They had a republican tone, that is, they defended France as a republic, based on compliance with a series of laws (constitution), in addition to supporting universal suffrage, popular sovereignty and ensuring a centralized state.
They are often known for their violent actions during the September massacres, also known in France as le Terreur (terror), where they prosecuted and sentenced to death, for apparent reasons, ordinary French citizens. The Girondists, one of the political movements also established in the Assembly, accused them of instigating these acts, which triggered a series of clashes in this place. It is important to mention that, the name of Jacobins came as a result of a writing, under the authorship of the French poet and writer Alphonse de Lamartine, called Histoire des Girondins (History of the Girondins), where the history of their adversaries, the Girondists; In his time of government, they were known as the mountaineers or the mountaineers.
The end of his term ends when Maximilien Robespierre, his main exponent and forerunner, is arrested along with Louis Saint-Just, George Couthon and his younger brother Augustin Robespierre. They were declared “out of law” (hors la loi), and later guillotined.
