, seem to have ceased attending, and the "_enrages_" obtained
control, such as J. R. Hebert, F. N. Vincent, C. P. H. Ronsin and A. F.
Momoro. Its influence was especially seen in the creation of the
revolutionary army destined to assure provisions for Paris, and in the
establishment of the worship of Reason. The Cordeliers were combated by
those revolutionists who wished to end the Terror, especially by Danton,
and by Camille Desmoulins in his journal _Le Vieux Cordelier_. The club
disowned Danton and Desmoulins and attacked Robespierre for his
"moderation," but the new insurrection which it attempted failed, and
its leaders were guillotined on the 24th of March 1794, from which date
nothing is known of the club. We know little of its composition.

The papers emanating from the Cordeliers are enumerated in M.
Tourneux, _Bibliographie de l'histoire de Paris pendant la Revolution_
(1894), i. (on the trial of the Hebertists) Nos. 4204-4210, ii. Nos.
9795-9834 and 11,813. See also A. Bougeart, _Les Cordeliers, documents
pour servir a l'histoire de la Revolution_ (Caen, 1891); G. Lenotre,
_Paris revolutionnaire_ (Paris, 1895); G. Tridon, _Les Hebertists,
plainte contre une calomnie de l'histoire_ (Paris, 1864). The
last-named author was condemned to four months' prison; his work was
reprinted in 1871. The inventory of the pictures found in 1790 in the
monastery of the Cordeliers was published by J. Guiffrey in _Nouvelles
archives de l'art francais_, viii., 2nd series, iii. (1880).
(R. A.*)

CORDERIUS, the Latinized form of name used by MATHURIN CORDIER (c.
1480-1564), French schoolmaster, a native of Normandy or Perche. He
possessed special tact and liking for teaching children, and taught
first at Paris, where Calvin was among his pupils, and, after a number
of changes, finally at Geneva, where he died on the 8th of September
1564. He wrote several books for children; the most famous is his
_Colloquia_ (_Colloquiorum scholasticorum libri quatuor_), which has
passed through innumerable editions, and was used in schools for three
centuries after his time. He also wrote: _Principia Latine loquendi
scribendique, sive selecta quaedam ex Epistolis Ciceronis_; _De corrupti
sermonis apud Gallos emendatione et Latine loquendi Ratione_; _De
syllabarum quantitate_; _Conciones sacrae viginti sex Galliae_; _Catonis
disticha de moribus_ (with Latin and French translation); _Remontrances
et exhortations