Cordelier

Cor·de·lier

in France, a member of the Franciscan Observants
Origin of Cordelier
after the Church of the Cordeliers, Paris, where the meetings were held
a member of a radical French Revolutionary political club

Origin of Cordelier

Old French from cordelle (see cordelle): so named from the knotted cord worn as a belt

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Noun

(plural Cordeliers)

A Franciscan.
(historical) A member of a French populist club during the French Revolution, which met in an old Cordelier convent in Paris.

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French, related to corde (“rope”), from the girdle of knotted cord worn by the Franciscans.

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In December 1793 was issued the first number of the Vieux Cordelier, which was at first directed against the Hebertists and approved of by Robespierre, but which soon formulated Danton's idea of a committee of clemency.
He had exhibited in the numbers of the Vieux Cordelier almost a disregard of the death which he must have known hovered over him.
Then he was elected to the Legislative Assembly, sitting at the extreme left, and forming with C. Bazire and Merlin de Thionville the "Cordelier trio."
Massillon (1663-1742), the famous pulpit orator, was born; the parish church of St Louis, built originally in the 13th century by the Cordelier or Franciscan friars, but completely restored in the earlier part of the 19th century; and the site of the old château, on the summit of the hill, now occupied by a villa.
He became the advocate of mercy, and his friend Camille Desmoulins pleaded for the same cause in the Vieux Cordelier.

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