Political club
As political clubs are referred some groups during the French Revolution , which were mainly located in Paris. Due to the seating arrangement, these were roughly divided into the so-called 'mountain' (Montagne) and the so-called 'swamp' (Marais). The mountain represented what is now regarded as the leftist position, the introduction of a republic without a king. In the course of the revolution its direction determined political development.
The swamp tended to be on the right and represented the model of a constitutional monarchy . They wanted to limit the rights of the king, but not to abolish him entirely.
Roughly from left to right, there were the following organizations which had not yet as parties, but rather as factions were called or as a club. Many clubs got their name from the seat of the club.
Individual clubs
As far as classifiable from left to right
- Enragé , radical faction of the sans-culottes
- Hébertisten , Left split from the Cordeliers
- Cordeliers , Linke (additional) split from the Jacobins, from 1792 part of the Montagnards
- Jacobins , left until identical split from the Breton club, part of the Montagnards from 1792
- Club du Manège , founded by the Jacobins in 1799
- Breton club
- Helvetic Club
- Indulgent , rights until identical split-off of the Cordeliers
- Girondins
- Club from 1789 , rights split from the Jacobins
- Feuillants , right secession from the Jacobins and successors to the monarchies
- Salm Club
- Impartiaux Club
- Monarchy successor to the club from 1789
- Royalists
- Ultras
Movements
- Montagnards (also called mountain party)
- Thermidorians
- Maraisards