FEUILLANTS, CLUB OF THE, a political association which played a prominent part during the French Revolution. It was founded on July 16, 1791, by several members of the Jacobin Club, who refused to sign a petition presented by this body, de manding the deposition of Louis XVI. Among them were Barere and Sieyes. The name of Feuillants was popularly given to this group because they met in the house in the rue Saint-Honore which had been occupied by the religious order bearing this name. The official name of the club was Societe des amis de la Constitu tion, its object being to support the constitution of 1791 against the émigrés on the one hand and the Jacobins on the other. With the rapid growth of extreme democratic ideas the Feuillants soon began to be looked upon as reactionaries, and to be classed with "aristocrats." A few days after the insurrection of August io their papers were seized, and 841 members were proclaimed as• suspects. This was the death-blow of the club ; but the name of Feuillants, as a party designation, survived. It was applied to those who advocated a policy of "cowardly moderation," and feuillantisme was associated with aristocratie in the mouths of the sansculottes. (See FRANCE : History.) See also A. Aulard, His toire politique de la Revolution f rancaise ), 2nd. ed., p. 153.