The sans-culottes (French: [sɑ̃kylɔt]; lit. 'without breeches') were the common people of the lower classes in late 18th-century France, a great many...

and Pierre Victurnien Vergniaud. François Hanriot chef de la section des Sans-Culottes (Rue Mouffetard); drawing by Gabriel in the Carnavalet Museum...

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...

and for attacking Lafayette. He became an orator for the local section sans-culottes, one of the most populous and poorest districts of the capital....

disillusioned. Many sans-culottes were stunned by the Hébertists' execution. All positions of influence traditionally held by the sans-culottes were eliminated...

of the Paris sections between supporters and opponents of the Terror. October 3: Arrest of the leaders of the bands of armed sans-culottes in Paris. October...

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...

longer retained by historians today. Under the pressure of the radical sans-culottes, the Convention agreed to institute a revolutionary army but refused...

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...

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...

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...

Jacobins, the leading political force of the era, were now allied with the sans-culottes and the Cordeliers, a radical political club in Paris. The coalition...

École centrale des travaux publics, predecessor of the École Polytechnique (school) established. 1795 20 May – Rioting sans-culottes invade the Convention...

political inclination—the diametrical opposite of the contemporary Parisian sans-culottes—with their (sometimes lethal) mob violence being directed against supposed...

perceived as revolutionary and the lower ranks were identified with sans-culottes. It experienced a period of official dissolution from 1827 to 1830 but...

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...

ideas 27.2 (2001): 115-132. Rose, Robert Barrie. The Making of the Sans-Culottes. Manchester: Manchester University Press, 1983. Ian Davidson, ed. (2016)...

of the Filles Saint-Thomas section of the National Guard, with whom he defended the royal family against the sans-culottes during the Demonstration of...

Thermidorian Reaction shattered the power of the Jacobin Clubs and sans culottes. The people of Paris would not forget this and the legacy of "the people...

aristocracy and then the Revolution pitted the bourgeoisie against the sans-culottes, who were a proletariat-in-the-making. Mathiez greatly influenced Georges...

bourgeoisie, the middle class, but the Third Estate also included the sans-culottes, the labouring class. Also included in the Third Estate were lawyers...

the end of every year. These were originally known as les sans-culottides (after sans-culottes), but after year III (1795) as les jours complémentaires:...

might be used as a provincial counterweight to the radical Parisian sans-culottes. King Louis employed his constitutional prerogative to quash the proposal...

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...

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...

plaque was placed on the house at 9 Rue Maximilien Robespierre (formerly Rue des Rapporteurs) rented by the three Robespierre siblings in 1787–1789, in the...

convicted, and sentenced to the guillotine. In September 1793, the radical Sans-Culottes stormed the Conciergerie and massacred the remaining royalist prisoners...

Société des Études Robespierristes. He specialised in the analysis of popular movements during the Revolution and detailed studies of the sans-culottes. In...

causing the scheme to be abandoned by its proponents. In particular, the sans-culottes of the Paris Commune were denounced as "anarchists" by the Girondins...

action and told the Jacobins that it was necessary to raise an army of Sans-culottes to defend Paris and arrest infidel deputies, naming and accusing Brissot...