Jacobins
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Jacobins can refer to
- the Jacobin Club, a political organization of the French Revolutionary Era ca. 1790, which was associated with the Reign of Terror of Jean-Paul Marat and Robespierre,
- "Jacobin," a political epithet derived from the Jacobin Club era and used in contemporary politics to describe a radical political zealot,
- a modern French political current supporting a centralized rather than provincial governmental structure.