Cordelier

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Cordelier a Franciscan Observant; so named from the knotted cord (Old French cordelle ‘small rope’) which these friars wore around the waist.

The Cordeliers were one of the political clubs of the French Revolution; the name derived from the meeting-place of the club, a former convent of the Franciscan Cordeliers.

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