Confédération des Amis de la Vérité (Cercle Social)
Members
- Anacharsis Cloots politician revolutionary writer
- Bertrand Barère freemason journalist jurist politician translator writer
- Camille Desmoulins freemason journalist jurist politician
- Claude Fauchet cleric journalist revolutionary writer
- Emmanuel-Joseph Sieyès cleric philosopher politician
- François-Antoine de Boissy d'Anglas jurist politician
- François-Xavier Lanthenas abolitionist physician politician translator writer
- Gracchus Babeuf journalist revolutionary
- Jacques-Pierre Brissot de Warville abolitionist bookseller entrepreneur pamphleteer politician publisher translator writer
- Jean-Baptiste Volfius cleric teacher
- Jean Henri Bancal des Issarts jurist politician
- Jean-Henri Castéra diplomat translator writer
- Jean-Jacques Rutledge journalist military novelist playwright poet publisher revolutionary translator
- Jean-Louis-Antoine Reynier bookseller civil servant journalist playwright publisher scientist writer
- Jean-Marie Roland de la Platière politician
- Joseph-Antoine-Joachim Cerutti freemason journalist poet politician writer
- Joseph-Marie Lequinio civil servant diplomat jurist politician writer
- Louis-Sébastien Mercier novelist pamphleteer playwright politician translator writer
- Luigi Pio civil servant diplomat journalist teacher translator writer
- Marie-Jeanne Roland de la Platière revolutionary salonnière writer
- Nicolas de Bonneville bookseller journalist linguist translator writer
- Nicolas de Caritat, marquis de Condorcet abolitionist journalist philosopher politician scientist writer
- Pierre-François Palloy entrepreneur poet publisher writer
- Théophile Mandar journalist military politician translator writer
Notes
The Confédération des Amis de la Vérité, or Cercle Social, was founded in October 1790. At the head of the organization was a steering committee called the Directoire du Cercle Social, composed of a small group of "patriotic writers". It met weekly in the Circus Arena in the Palais Royal. Its four chosen secretaries were: Bertrand Barere, Luigi Pio, Jean Lapoype and Jean-François Michel. See Gary Kates, 'The Cercle Social, the Girondins, and the French Revolution' (1985, Princeton University Press), which includes an Appendix (A) listing known members.