Mountain, The, the name given to the Jacobins, or the extreme democratic party, at the French Revolution, from their occupying the highest benches in the hall of the National Convention, and included such men as Marat, Danton, Robespierre, and the men of the Reign of Terror.
Definition taken from The Nuttall Encyclopædia, edited by the Reverend James Wood (1907)
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