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    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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    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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    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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    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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    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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    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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    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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    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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  • 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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    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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    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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    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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    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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    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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  • 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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    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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    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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    Sans-culottes. The Sans-culottes were the working class of French peasants who fought for liberty during the French Revolution (1789-1799). The Sans-culottes...
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    politician during the French Revolution, he was a vigorous defender of the sans-culottes, a radical voice, and published his views in pamphlets, placards and...
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    Republic, and not yet commissioned, she was renamed Sans-Culotte, in honour of the Sans-culottes. On 14 March 1795, she took part in the Battle of Genoa...
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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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  • 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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    worse impact on Paris, which played a major role in the rise of the sans-culottes. https://www.worldhistory.org/article/1960/the-three-estates-of-pre...
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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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    referred to as descamisados or "shirtless ones" (similar to the term “sans-culottes” during the French Revolution). Opposition from the nation's military...
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    comparison to the derogative term applied to the French popular masses, the sans-culottes of the French bourgeoisie revolution of 1789. In the 20th century, it...
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