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The Panthéon Club, formally the Reunion of Friends of the Republic, was a Jacobin political club which was active from November 1795 to February 1796 during the French Revolution. The Panthéon Club was formed by unrepentant Jacobins who, in the aftermath of the failed Royalist uprising of 13 Vendemiaire in October 1795, were invited to come out of the shadows by the French Directory. The club met near the Panthéon, hence its name. The club attracted men who had been involved in the great dictatorial committees at the time of the Reign of Terror in 1793-94, and they opposed the anti-democratic Constitution of the Year III and the greedy speculators allied with the moderate Thermidorians. The Panthéon Club attracted 1,000 members, but its steep entry dues restricted its membership to more well-off "Gentleman Jacobins", who were initially moderate in their views. However, the club soon attracted former Montagnards, and, by February 1796, the club had grown to 2,400 members. The club initially shunned Francois-Noel Babeuf's communist "Equals", but Babeuf's friend Philippe Buonarroti began to recruit members of the larger Panthéon Club into the Equals; by the end of 1795, Babeuf's The Tribune of the People was being read at Panthéon Club meetings and enthusiastically applauded. On 26 February 1796, the Directory repressed the Panthéon Club, fearing that it might disturb law and public order. This persuaded the Panthéon Club that there was no capacity for reconciliation with the Thermidorians, leading to the Panthéon Club joining the "Conspiracy of the Equals", which was crushed on 10 May 1796. In September 1796, the remaining rump of left-wing Jacobins failed to incite an army mutiny in the Grenelle district near the Champ de Mars, and 130 Jacobins were arrested and 30 executed a month later by a firing squad.

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