07 November 2019
Word of the Day: Jacobins
JACOBINS. Name originally given to the Dominican friars in France because
their first house in Northern France was founded in Paris in 1218 on the Rue
St.-Jacques. During the French Revolution, in 1789, this house was acquired
by the radical club Breton, where they came to be called Jacobins. The term
is now applied to all holding revolutionary views.
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