Founded at Palais-Royal Region France | Headquarters Palais-Royal | |
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Formation 1790; 227 years ago (1790) Extinction 1791; 226 years ago (1791) Methods Centre-right politics
Constitutional monarchy
Modérantisme
Liberal conservatism | ||
Society of 1789, or Patriotic Society of 1789 (French: Club de 1789 or Société patriotique de 1789), was a political club of the French Revolution, inaugurated during a festive banquet held at Palais-Royal in May 1790 by more moderate elements of the Breton Club. At their height of influence, it was the second most important one after the Jacobin Club.
Among its members were Jean Sylvain Bailly, Mayor of Paris; Marquis de La Fayette, Commander-in-chief of the National Guard (France); François Alexandre Frédéric, duc de la Rochefoucauld-Liancourt, Isaac René Guy le Chapelier, Honoré Gabriel Riqueti, comte de Mirabeau, Emmanuel Joseph Sieyès, Charles-Maurice de Talleyrand-Périgord, and Nicolas de Condorcet.
The club kept an partment in Palais-Royal where subsequent banquets were held. Its members were considered moderate and conservative, and preferred for France to remain a constitutional monarchy in opposition to the republicans.
The popularity of the club eventually decreased the same year as it was founded, and the remaining audience went to form the right-wing Club des Feuillants, founded June 18, 1791.