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Confédération des Amis de la Vérité (Cercle Social)

Members

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.