French Revolutionary Studies A FAILURE OF ENLIGHTENED POLITICS IN THE FRENCH REVOLUTION: THE SOCIETE
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In the spring and early summer of 1790, a new and formidable political association appeared in Paris dedicated to the consolidation of the Revolutionary gains of the previous year and to the development, propagation and implementation of Enlightened social and political ideals. The Societe de 1789 was founded by the marquis de Condorcet and abbe Sieyes in April 1790, and quickly attracted a large number of members from the leadership of the National Assembly, prominent intellectuals, financiers, Parisian politicians and ancien regime jurists and bureaucrats. The membership list of the club suggests that the founders had assembled a workable coalition of political and intellectual moderates in 1790, including political figures such as Bailly, La Fayette, Mirabeau, Le Chapelier, Talleyrand, Thouret and La Rochefoucauld, and intellectuals such as Lavoisier, Suard, Tracy, Cabanis and DuPont de Nemours. Its meetings were very well at-
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