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Jacobin is separate and distinct from Jacobite and Jacobian.The Society of the Friends of the Constitution (French: Société des amis de la Constitution) commonly known as the Jacobin Club (Club des Jacobins pronounced: [ʒa.kɔ.bɛ̃]) was the most famous and influential political club in the development of the French Revolution so named because of the Dominican convent where they met which had recently been located in the Rue St. Jacques (Latin: Jacobus) Paris.