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*[[Red Cockades]] - Supporters of the French Revolution.
 
*[[Red Cockades]] - Supporters of the French Revolution.
 
*[[White Cockades]] - Pro-[[Royalist]] counter-revolutionaries to the Jacobins.
 
*[[White Cockades]] - Pro-[[Royalist]] counter-revolutionaries to the Jacobins.
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*[[Republicans]] - foes of monarchy.
 
*[[Royalists]] - Supporters of absolute and constitutional monarchy, opposed to the [[French Revolution]].
 
*[[Royalists]] - Supporters of absolute and constitutional monarchy, opposed to the [[French Revolution]].
*[[Republicans]] - in favor of a political system without a monarch
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* [[The Black Jacobins]] - Highly regarded book on the Haitian Revolution by C.L.R. James.
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[[Category:Glossary]]
 
[[Category:Glossary]]

Latest revision as of 11:24, 17 October 2010

Jacobins - originally referring to members of the revolutionary Jacobin Club in France, the term came to apply broadly to revolutionaries of all stripes.

See also