Sans-culotte n. : A fellow without breeches; a ragged fellow; -- a name of reproach given in the first French revolution to the extreme republican party, who rejected breeches as an emblem peculiar to the upper classes or aristocracy, and adopted pantaloons.Sans-culotte n. : Hence, an extreme or radical republican; a violent revolutionist; a Jacobin.Example:Who were the Parisians during the French Revolution and what was their policy of Sans-culotte ideology?TaxonomySans-culottes, free encyclopedia, revolutionary, the French, poorer, History, the Reign of Terror, governments, Revolutionary army, the French Revolutionary Wars, search, rendition, sans-culotte, dominant theory, fashionable, knee-length, equipped, volunteers.Defination from the web:sans-culotte. Sans-culottes. Sans-culottes (French for without knee-breeches) was a term created 1790 - 1792 by the ... Led by revolutionaries such as Jacques Hébert, the sans-culottes played a crucial role in such events as the September massacres of 1792, and ...
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