Brewer's: Charbonnerie Democratique

A new Carbonari society, founded in Paris on the principles of Babeuf. The object of these Republicans was to make Paris the centre of all political movements. (See page 214, col. 2, Carbonari.)

Source: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, E. Cobham Brewer, 1894
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