Question

After the arrival of General Custine, Caroline Schelling and Georg Forster founded one of these groups in Mainz. For 10 points each:
[10m] British agents feared that “citizen” Tipu Sultan had founded what sort of group in Mysore? The original one of these groups met on the Rue Saint-Honoré (“sant on-oh-RAY”).
ANSWER: Jacobin clubs [or Clubs des Jacobins; prompt on Jacobins or revolutionary clubs]
[10e] The local Jacobin club supported the Mainz Republic, a precursor of this “confederation” of German client states founded by Napoleon after the Battle of Austerlitz.
ANSWER: Confederation of the Rhine [or Rhine Confederation; or Confederated States of the Rhine; or Rheinbund; or États confédérés du Rhin]
[10h] During the Thermidorian Reaction, the Paris Jacobin Club was attacked by a mob of these middle-class dandies, who wielded clubs nicknamed “constitutions” and wore perfume.
ANSWER: muscadins [or jeunesse dorée; or gilded youth]
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