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- response to their poor quality of life under the Ancien Régime. The word sans-culotte, which is opposed to "aristocrat", seems to have been used for the first...
- First 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...
- Simon Chenard as a Sans-Culotte (French: Portrait du chanteur Simon Chenard en costume de sans-culotte) is an oil on canvas portrait painting by the French...
- of his Symphony No. 6 in E-flat minor Revolutionary. An alternative "sans-culotte"-like version was sung by Édith Piaf for the soundtrack of the film Royal...
- 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...
- pronunciation: [fʁɑ̃swa ɑ̃ʁjo]; 2 December 1759 – 28 July 1794) was a French Sans-culotte leader, street orator, and commander of the National Guard during the...
- dictatorship. In April 1793, Robespierre advocated the mobilisation of a sans-culotte army aiming at enforcing revolutionary laws and eliminating any counter-revolutionary...
- historic men's culotte breeches, except that in French, calling something "culottes" is like calling them "bottoms". The historical French term "sans-culottes"...
- Terror of 1794, the workaday outfits of the sans-culottes symbolized Jacobin egalitarianism. Sans-culotte literally translates to "without culottes",...
- icon to the Montagnards faction of the Jacobins as well as the greater sans-culotte po****tion, and a revolutionary martyr; according to contemporary accounts...