The best means to understand the French Revolution of 1789 is to study the importance of Nicolas de Bonneville and the Cercle Social organization he led with 8,000 members. In late 1791, the Cercle Social’s agent Brissot gained control over the Jacobins, transforming it into an Illuminist structure. However, Robespierre by June 1793 hijacked back the Jacobins and thereby the revolution. He wanted to stop the trend toward an atheist cosmopolitan vision of the Illuminati such as Bonneville advocated. Robespierre favored a nationalistic and tyrannical vision. Nevertheless, Bonneville was not to blame for dechristianizers like Cloots — a Cercle Social member, because Cloots broke away in early 1793 to act more precipitously than Cercle Social policy dictated.