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 (jăk`əbĭnz), political club of the French Revolution .
..... 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 (zhäk r
), d. 1794, French revolutionary.
..... Click the link for more information. and the fall of Hébert Hébert, Jacques René (zhäk rənā` ābĕr`), 1757–94, French journalist and revolutionary.
..... Click the link for more information. , sans-culotte power was neutralized. The enragés enragés (äNräzhā`), term applied to a small group of Parisian radical extremists in the French Revolution .
..... Click the link for more information. were a distinct group of sans-culottes.
..... 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 (zhäk r
), d. 1794, French revolutionary...... Click the link for more information. and the fall of Hébert Hébert, Jacques René (zhäk rənā` ābĕr`), 1757–94, French journalist and revolutionary.
..... Click the link for more information. , sans-culotte power was neutralized. The enragés enragés (äNräzhā`), term applied to a small group of Parisian radical extremists in the French Revolution .
..... 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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