The capitulation and French occupation ushered in the start of the short-lived “Mainz Republic,” the first of its kind on German soil. It was established by the local German Jacobin club, the Society of the Friends of Liberty and Equality [Gesellschaft der Freunde der Freiheit und Gleichheit], under the leadership of the naturalist and writer Johann Georg Forster (1754-94).
Source: Engraving by Samuel-Jean-Joseph Cholet after a painting by
Victor-Jean Vincent Adam, 19th century.
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