-
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...
-
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...
-
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...
-
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...
- 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...
-
historic men's
culotte breeches,
except that in French,
calling something "culottes" is like
calling them "bottoms". The
historical French term "
sans-culottes"...
- dictatorship. In
April 1793,
Robespierre advocated the
mobilisation of a
sans-
culotte army
aiming at
enforcing revolutionary laws and
eliminating any counter-revolutionary...
- 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...
- 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...
-
harvests 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...
