After the flight of the king to Varennes, Barère joined the republican party and the Feuillants, although he continued to keep in touch with the Duke of Orléans, whose natural daughter, Pamela, he tutored.

" The Legislative Assembly consisted of about 165 Feuillants ( constitutional monarchists ) on the right, about 330 Girondists ( liberal republicans ) and Jacobins ( radical revolutionaries ) on the left, and about 250 deputies unaffiliated with either faction.

The Legislative Assembly consisted of about 165 Feuillants ( constitutional monarchists ) on the right, about 330 Girondists ( liberal republicans ) in the center, a vocal group of Jacobins ( radical revolutionaries ) on the left, and about 250 deputies unaffiliated with any of those factions.

Again, Lafayette and the Feuillants proposed to save the constitutional monarchy and royal family by uniting his army with General Luckner's.

He is most notable for correspondence with Marie Antoinette in an attempt to set up a constitutional monarchy and for being one of the founding members of the Feuillants.

Together these three would later be principal figures in the formation of the Feuillants, the breakaway party from the Jacobin Club dedicated to a moderate course supporting constitutional monarchy.

Purportedly, the subject of these conversations included Barnave and the rest of the Feuillants ’ fervent belief that a constitutional monarchy was the most viable solution for ending the revolution with a minimum of further bloodshed.

In July 1791, after the flight of Louis XVI, the constitutional king, Rewbell left the Jacobin Club and joined the Feuillants.

* Feuillants – Members of the Club des Feuillants, result of a split within the Jacobins, who favoured a constitutional monarchy over a republic.

As the Assembly began to divide into factions, Lameth, a constitutional monarchist, was identified with the Feuillants.

The members of the first group were primarily moderate members of the bourgeoisie that favored a constitutional monarchy, represented by the Feuillants, who felt that the revolution had already achieved its goal.

When the king formed a new cabinet mostly of constitutional monarchist Feuillants, this widened the breach between the king on the one hand and the leaders of the Assembly and the majority of the common people of Paris on the other.

The constitutional monarchist grenadiers of the Filles-Saint-Thomas scuffled with the federates of Marseilles, but it was the last stand of the constitutional monarchist faction: the club of the Feuillants was closed ; the grenadier and chasseur companies of the National Guard which formed the force of the bourgeoisie were disbanded.

He was a member of the moderate club, the Feuillants, but, after the overthrow of the monarchy on with the insurrection of 10 August, 1792 he accepted an office in the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, where he sometimes exercised a steadying influence.

In France, where the term cercle is most usual, the first was Le Club Politique ( 1782 ), and during the French Revolution such associations proved important political forces ( see Jacobins, Feuillants, Cordeliers ).

The Feuillants began to lose this political clout by early autmun however, a matter that was complicated by disagreements that arose with the growing influence of Jacques Pierre Brissot and his supporters, known as the Girondists.

Much evidence indicates that, because her closest friends, including Count von Fersen ( who had organized the flight from Paris ), were absent, Marie Antoinette was attempting to influence Barnave and his fellow Feuillants as a way to ensure her family ’ s safety.

Obsessed by religion, he sought admission to the ascetic Feuillants order, but after a short probation, he was dismissed as being " prey to visions ".

The club was radicalized by the departure of its conservative members to form their own Feuillants Club in July 1791.

* Congregation of the Feuillants, a Catholic congregation derived from the abbey of the same name ; a monk of this order was called a Feuillant, and a nun a Feuillantine

* Feuillant ( political group ): the Club des Feuillants, a political group of the French Revolution that used the premises of the dissolved Convent of the Feuillants ; a member of this group was called a Feuillant

He was called to Paris by his brother in 1787, and during the French Revolution belonged, like Pierre, to the party of the Feuillants.

A last Girondist advance to Louis was rebuffed, and the Feuillants were in collapse.

His resignation was the result of his disagreements with the Feuillants on the question of foreign war.

He was sent first to the nearby College of Auch as tutor to the sons of the local seigneur, then to the Collège de France, Paris, where he studied rhetoric and philosophy with the famous humanist logician and mathematician Petrus Ramus, who became his friend ; he studied law briefly at Bourges under the famous legist Jacques Cujas and became an advocate before the Parlement of Paris, while acting as tutor to Jean de la Barrière, the future reforming abbot of the Feuillants.

There were three competing views on which direction France should go, embodied by three political parties: the moderate royalists or Feuillants, republican Girondists, and the more radical Montagnards, led by Maximilien Robespierre.

By the virtue of obeying this law, the moderate Feuillants embraced obsolescence ; the radical Jacobins, by ignoring it, emerged as the most vital political force of the French Revolution.

The Right within the assembly ( in the wider picture of national politics they are better seen as moderates, since the ' real ' right wing of monarchists were outside the assembly and in some cases outside the country as émigrés at this time ) consisted of about 165 " Feuillants ", guided chiefly by persons outside the House, because those had been made incapable of re-election.

The result is the rise of the Feuillants, a new political faction lead by Barnave, who used his position on the committee to preserve a number of powers for the Crown, such as the nomination of ambassadors, military leaders, and ministers.

Having nationalised the goods of the Church, the Assemblée nationale, requiring more space than the Manège alone could provide, extended its occupation to two adjacent convents, those of the Capuchins, which soon housed the Revolutionary printing presses in its former refectory, and of the Feuillants, whose handsome library received the archives of the Assemblée.

Barnave and his supporters among the Feuillants feared a war they thought France had little chance to win and which they feared might lead to greater radicalization of the revolution.

* Les Feuillants Abbey, also known as Feuillant Abbey (), a Cistercian monastery in Labastide-Clermont, France

During the Reign of Terror, as a suspect for having had links with the Feuillants, he temporarily emigrated to Great Britain, but returned to France in 1794, in a hopeless effort to prevent the confiscation of his assets.

Feuillant and its plural Feuillants, a French word derived ultimately from the Latin for " leaf ", can refer to the following:

* Convent of the Feuillants ( Couvent des Feuillants ) in Paris, a monastery belonging to the Congregation of the Feuillants, with its church, the Église des Feuillants

* 1818: Former Feuillants formed the party of the Democrats ( Démocrates ), also named Liberals ( Libéraux )

They had always disliked and distrusted Lafayette and the Feuillants, and now preferred to rest their hopes of deliverance on the foreigners.

The King, many of the Feuillants, and the Girondins specifically wanted to wage war.

The King ( and many Feuillants with him ) expected war would increase his personal popularity ; he also foresaw an opportunity to exploit any defeat: either result would make him stronger.

After the Feuillants opposed war against Austria and the Habsburgs, they were driven out of the Assembly.

In the meantime he orated at the Feuillants Club, and contributed frequently to the Journal de Paris from November 1791 to July 1792, when he wrote his scorching iambs to Jean Marie Collot d ' Herbois, Sur les Suisses révoltés du regiment de Châteauvieux.

called la terrasse du Bord-de-L ' eau, planted with trees, with a view of the river He built a second terrace on the north side, overlooking the garden, called the Terrasse des Feuillants.

He belonged to the moderate party known as the Feuillants, but after 10 August 1792 he ceased to take part in public life.