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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 (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. BibliographySee A. Soboul, The Sans-cullotes (1981). How to thank TFD for its existence? Tell a friend about us, add a link to this page, add the site to iGoogle, or visit webmaster's page for free fun content. |
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The author also found small similarities between the "forces of order" (210) of 1791 and the sans-culottes movement of 1793, more evidence that crowds of the era were not all cut from the same cloth. After a moment, the dungeon's walls part and swivel to reveal a Parisian square dominated by a guillotine, the focus of a dozen capering sans-culottes. The new museum was opened to the public on 18 January but access to it was blocked 12 days later by a sit-in staged by professional musicians and other performance artists in protest against planned government measures which, they claim, would leave them no better off than the sans-culottes. |
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