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sans-culottes (säN-külôt`) [French,=without knee breeches], a term loosely applied to the lower classes in France during the French Revolution. The name was derived from the fact that these people wore long trousers instead of the knee breeches worn by the upper classes. The term applied to the sectionary "elites" in Paris connected with the Jacobins Jacobins , political club of the French Revolution. Formed in 1789 by the Breton deputies to the States-General, it was reconstituted as the Society of Friends of the Constitution after the revolutionary National Assembly moved (Oct., 1789) to Paris.
..... Click the link for more information. and to the popular masses aroused during the revolutionary journées (mass protests). Sans-culottism referred to the collectivist ideology that valued fraternity above liberty and demanded economic controls. With the suicide of Roux Roux, Jacques , d. 1794, French revolutionary. A priest in Paris, he abandoned the priesthood at the start of the French Revolution. Roux was a member of the Commune of Paris of Aug., 1792.
..... Click the link for more information. and the fall of Hébert Hébert, Jacques René , 1757–94, French journalist and revolutionary. An ardent supporter of the French Revolution, he gained the support of the working classes through his virulent paper Le Père Duchesne
..... Click the link for more information. , sans-culotte power was neutralized. The enragés enragés , term applied to a small group of Parisian radical extremists in the French Revolution. Rising prices and food shortages provoked them in Feb.–Mar., 1793, to pillage the city's food stores.
..... Click the link for more information. were a distinct group of sans-culottes.

Bibliography

See A. Soboul, The Sans-cullotes (1981).

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In truth, it is the middle classes, particularly the lower middle classes, who make revolutions, whether they be the sans-culottes of Revolutionary France, or the ruined small businessmen of Weimar Germany.

A dangerous mood is being created; in association with RBS by The Journal (Newcastle, England)

Time was when a classical album sleeve featured nothing more risque than a piano leg sans-culottes or a bust of Beethoven.

ALTERNATIVELY SPEAKING by Daily Post (Liverpool, England)

They date back to the late-1700s and the name is derived from the looser style of trouser worn by French working-class revolutionaries - named the Sans-Culottes (without breeches) - who rejected the aristocracy's tight breeches.

What a lot of culottes we've got! by The Mirror (London, England)