Jacobin
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Jacobin may refer to:
  • Jacobin (politics)
    Jacobin (politics)
    A Jacobin , in the context of the French Revolution, was a member of the Jacobin Club, a revolutionary far-left political movement. The Jacobin Club was the most famous political club of the French Revolution. So called from the Dominican convent where they originally met, in the Rue St. Jacques ,...

    , a member of the Jacobin club, or political radical, generally
  • The Jacobin Club
    Jacobin Club
    The Jacobin Club was the most famous and influential political club in the development of the French Revolution, so-named because of the Dominican convent where they met, located in the Rue St. Jacques , Paris. The club originated as the Club Benthorn, formed at Versailles from a group of Breton...

    , a political club during the French Revolution
  • Jacobin (magazine)
    Jacobin (magazine)
    Jacobin is a quarterly magazine of culture and polemic based out of Washington, D.C, New York and London. The publication began as an online magazine released in September of 2010, but expanded into a print journal later that year...

    , an American leftist political magazine.
  • Jacobin (pigeon)
    Jacobin (pigeon)
    The Jacobin is a breed of fancy pigeon developed over many years of selective breeding. Jacobins, along with other varieties of domesticated pigeons, are all descendants from the Rock Pigeon ....

    , a breed of Domestic Pigeon
    Domestic Pigeon
    The Domestic Pigeon was derived from the Rock Pigeon. The Rock Pigeon is the world's oldest domesticated bird. Mesopotamian cuneiform tablets mention the domestication of pigeons more than 5,000 years ago, as do Egyptian hieroglyphics.Research suggests that domestication of pigeons was as early as...

  • Jacobin violet, another name for the French wine grape Pascal blanc
  • Jacobin (hummingbird), two species of hummingbirds from the genus Florisuga
  • Dominican Order
    Dominican Order
    The Order of Preachers , after the 15th century more commonly known as the Dominican Order or Dominicans, is a Catholic religious order founded by Saint Dominic and approved by Pope Honorius III on 22 December 1216 in France...

    , the Catholic religious order
  • The Black Jacobins
    The Black Jacobins
    The Black Jacobins: Toussaint L'Ouverture and the San Domingo Revolution , by Afro-Trinidadian writer C. L. R. James , is a history of the 1791-1804 Haitian Revolution...

    ,
    a book about the Haitian revolution by C.L.R. James.

See also

  • Jacobean era
    Jacobean era
    The Jacobean era refers to the period in English and Scottish history that coincides with the reign of King James VI of Scotland, who also inherited the crown of England in 1603 as James I...

    , the reign of James I of England
  • Jacobite (disambiguation)
  • Jacobitism
    Jacobitism
    Jacobitism was the political movement in Britain dedicated to the restoration of the Stuart kings to the thrones of England, Scotland, later the Kingdom of Great Britain, and the Kingdom of Ireland...

    , support for the House of Stuart
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