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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.

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Who were the Parisians during the French Revolution and what was their policy of Sans-culotte ideology?

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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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