la paix_), with a
supplement printed in the same year; Louvet de Couvrai, _Memoires_
(ed. Aulard, Paris, 1889); Alphonse Esquiros, _Charlotte Corday_ (2nd
ed., 2 vols., Paris, 1841); Cheron de Villiers, _Marie Anne Charlotte
Corday_ (Paris, 1865); Casimir Perier, "La Jeunesse de Charlotte
Corday" (_Revue des deux mondes_, 1862); C. Vatel, _Dossiers du proces
criminel de Charlotte de Corday ... extraits des archives imperiales_
(Paris, 1861), and _Dossier historique de Charlotte Corday_ (Paris,
1872); Austin Dobson, _Four Frenchwomen_ (London, 1890); A. Ducos,
_Les Trois Girondines, Mme Roland, Charlotte Corday ..._ (Paris,
1896); Dr Cabanes, "La vraie Charlotte Corday," in _Le Cabinet secret
de l'histoire_ (4 vols., 1897-1900). Her tragic history was the
subject of two anonymous tragedies, _Charlotte Corday_ (1795), said to
be by the Conventional F. J. Gamon, and _Charlotte Corday_ (Caen,
1797), neither of which have any merit; another by J. B. Salles is
published by C. Vatel in _Charlotte de Corday et les Girondins_
(1864-1872). See further bibliographical articles in M. Tourneux,
_Bibl. de l'hist. de Paris ..._ (vol. iv., 1906), and in the
_Bibliographie des femmes celebres_ (3 vols., Turin and Rome,
1892-1905); and also E. Defrance, _Charlotte Corday et la mort de
Marat_ (1909).

CORDELIERS, CLUB OF THE, or SOCIETY OF THE FRIENDS OF THE RIGHTS OF MAN
AND OF THE CITIZEN, a popular society of the French Revolution. It was
formed by the members of the district of the Cordeliers, when the
Constituent Assembly suppressed the 60 districts of Paris to replace
them with 48 sections (21st of May 1790). It held its meetings at first
in the church of the monastery of the Cordeliers,--the name given in
France to the Franciscan Observantists,--now the Dupuytren museum of
anatomy in connexion with the school of medicine. From 1791, however,
the Cordeliers met in a hall in the rue Dauphine. The aim of the society
was to keep an eye on the government; its emblem on its papers was
simply an open eye. It sought as well to encourage revolutionary
measures against the monarchy and the old regime, and it was it
especially which popularized the motto "Liberty, Equality, Fraternity."
It took an active part in the movement against the monarchy of the 20th
of June and the 10th of August 1792; but after that date the more
moderate leaders of the club, Danton, Fabre d'Eglantine, Camille
Desmoulins