The sans-culottes (French: [sɑ̃kylɔt]; lit. 'without breeches') were the common people of the lower classes in late 18th-century France, a great many...
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1789–1799, working-class revolutionaries were known as the "sans-culottes" – literally, "without culottes" – a name derived from their rejection of aristocratic...
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Les Sans Culottes is a French-language rock band from Brooklyn, New York. The group performs primarily original material and some covers of French rock...
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longer retained by historians today. Under the pressure of the radical sans-culottes, the Convention agreed to institute a revolutionary army but refused...
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Timeline of the French Revolution (section May 20–24, 1795 – Last Paris uprising by the Jacobins and sans-culottes)
sans-culottes organized by the Commune storms the hall of the convention and demands that it disband. The deputies resist. June 2: The sans-culottes and...
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bourgeoisie to give their total support to the sans-culottes, and yet too attentive to the needs of the sans-culottes to get support from the middle class". For...
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disillusioned. Many sans-culottes were stunned by the Hébertists' execution. All positions of influence traditionally held by the sans-culottes were eliminated...
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Ça Ira (section Sans-culotte version)
anthem of revolutionaries. At later stages of the revolution, many sans-culottes used several much more aggressive stanzas, calling for the lynching...
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within the LCS English Jacobins were leading on the equivalent to the sans-culottes of the revolutionary Paris sections. Some of the working class membership...
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and rising food prices led to unrest among the urban class known as Sans-culottes, who saw the new regime as failing to meet their demands for bread and...
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September. He established another, on the shore of Brégallion, called the "sans-culottes". Hood attempted to silence it, without success, but the British fleet...
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its members the right to vote. At the section meetings, Jacobins and sans-culottes clashed with moderates and gradually gained the upper hand. On 30 July...
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figures like Danton or Hébert. To prevent the massacres for which the sans-culottes were responsible in the departments, particularly in Vendée, or to centralize...
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primary weapon of Swiss mercenary, German Landsknecht units and French sans-culottes. A similar weapon, the sarissa, had been used in antiquity by Alexander...
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that of a comical stove-merchant into a patriotic role model for the sans-culottes. In part, Hébert's use of Père Duchesne as a revolutionary symbol can...
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Seven ships of the French Navy have borne the name Sans-Culotte in honour of the Sans-culottes: Orient, an Océan-class 118-gun ship of the line of the...
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of Danton's seizure of the National Assembly in June 1792, a mob of sans-culottes invaded the meeting hall of the Convention at the Tuileries Palace,...
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of the city and responded strongly to demands from the working class sans-culottes. The Mountain operated on the belief that what was best for Paris would...
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citizens of Paris, the sans-culottes, made a major intervention into the Revolution's affairs. For this stage of the Revolution, the sans-culotte were allies...
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defending the lower class and expressing the demands of the radical sans-culottes during the French Revolution. They played an active role in the 31 May...
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for attacking Lafayette. He became an orator for the local section sans-culottes, one of the most populous and poorest districts of the capital. On 9...
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Revolutionaries and poor mocked the rich by calling themselves the sans-culottes, those without culottes. With the Revolution and the disappearance of the aristocrats...
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the French Revolution. Between 1,176 and 1,614 people were killed by sans-culottes, fédérés, and guardsmen, with the support of gendarmes responsible for...
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as well as the disbanding of the Jacobin Club, the dispersal of the sans-culottes, and the renunciation of the Montagnard ideology. The name Thermidorian...
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in the fall of 29 Girondins and two ministers under pressure of the sans-culottes, Jacobins, and Montagnards. Due to its impact and importance, the insurrection...
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part of the Jacobins, but branched off), were closely allied to the sans-culottes, who were a popular force of working-class Parisians that played a pivotal...
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Thermidor Year II (27 July 1794), they took on the remaining Jacobins and sans-culottes, and largely succeeded in suppressing them over the next year or two...
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perceived as revolutionary and the lower ranks were identified with sans-culottes. It experienced a period of official dissolution from 1827 to 1830 but...
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revolts of the French Revolution. After their defeat in Prairial, the sans-culottes ceased to play any effective part until the next round of revolutions...
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The Battle of Sans Culottes Camp (5 February 1794) saw a Spanish army commanded by José de Urrutia y de las Casas attack part of the French Army of the...
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