ETYMOLOGY OF THE WORD SANS-CULOTTE
From French, literally: without knee breeches, because the revolutionaries wore pantaloons or trousers rather than knee breeches.
10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «SANS-CULOTTE»
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1
The Making of the
Sans-culottes: Democratic Ideas and ...
In 1794 the chief expression of this tendency was the sans-culotte movement in
Paris, acting through the forty-eight sections into which the city was divided, and
through the many popular societies of the capital. Professor Soboul has analysed
...
2
A Critical Dictionary of the French Revolution
The sans-culotte spoke fraternally to every citizen, male or female. He aimed to
be simple, frugal, affable, and accessible. His language, which was often
excessively rhetorical and at times echoed the tones of prerevolu- tionary
corporatism, ...
François Furet, Mona Ozouf, 1989
3
The
Sans-culottes: The Popular Movement and Revolutionary ...
The sans-culotte, even if he was a commissar, was the worst off. A republican
commissar was paid five livres a day, or 1,800 per annum; a committee secretary,
1,200; an office boy, 800. Sans-culotte Girbal, forwarding agent in the central
office ...
4
Money and Liberty in Modern Europe: A Critique of Historical ...
These observations gain strength from two recent studies of the sans-culotte
movement under the Terror that have shed considerable new light on its social
composition and its unique political idiom. Richard M. Andrews has shown that a
good ...
These observations gain strength from two recent studies of the sans-culotte
movement under the Terror that have shed considerable new light on its social
composition and its unique political idiom. Richard M. Andrews has shown that a
good ...
6
Work and Revolution in France: The Language of Labor from ...
Titled "Answer to the Impertinent Question: But What Is a Sans-Culotte?" it is
worth quoting at some length. A sans-culotte, you rascals? He is a being who
always goes on foot, who has no millions, as all you wish to have, no castle, no
valets to ...
William Hamilton Sewell, 1980
7
Jacques-Louis David and Jean-Louis Prieur, Revolutionary ...
Limiting sans-culotte assemblies was the first step in the eventual elimination of
the assemblies. From this moment on, the Jacobin government moved steadily
and surely to reduce the power of the sans-culottes. Tensions had long been ...
8
Terror: From Tyrannicide to Terrorism
On 2 June the Convention agreed to sans-culotte demands for the removal of the
leading Girondins, although that provoked a so-called 'federalist revolt' in major
cities of Normandy and the Midi, led by moderate republicans who resented the ...
Brett Bowden, Michael T. Davis, 2008
9
Press in the French Revolution
A true sans-culotte is what one used to call the man of the people, open, cordial,
sometimes rough and ready but always humane, even in those revolutionary
moments when a veil is thrown over the statue of humanity. The true sans-culotte
...
W. Gilchrist, W. J. Murray, 1971
10
The French Revolution: Faith, Desire and Politics
41 George Rudé, far more sympathetic, pointed out that the men who took part in
sans-culotte life were not the riffraff that critics took them to be. They tended to be
young men from the neighborhoods in eastern Paris or the suburbs just east of ...
5 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «SANS-CULOTTE»
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sans-culotte is used in the context of the following news items.
Figures libres. Kant sans-culotte
Car il a bien existé un Kant sans-culotte, si l'on ose dire. Rien à voir, évidemment, avec La Vie sexuelle d'Emmanuel Kant, ces conférences canularesques du ... «Le Monde, Jul 15»
Seasoned sans-culotte Ed Vulliamy delivers clear message to …
Back came this reply from the republican paper's seasoned sans-culotte, Ed Vulliamy: 'It's all so pathetically retarded. Vive La Guillotine! Vive Marat!' (French ... «Daily Mail, Jul 13»
Premier ministre serbe et journaliste sans culotte (Blic)
Piégé par une sans-culotte. Le Premier ministre serbe a porté plainte contre l'équipe d'une émission TV qui l'a piégé dans une fausse interview face à une ... «Arrêt sur images, Feb 13»
Le Sans-culotte 85 : un canard enchaîné vendéen ?
Le sans-culotte 85 » est un journal vendéen crée en janvier 2007 par Marie Coq, journaliste. Depuis, un autre journaliste travaille également à l'édition du ... «Magazine Fragil, Oct 12»
J'ai testé pour vous… jouer à la sans-culotte
J'ai pas de doléances à faire, 1789 je connais pas, mais j'ai quand même réalisé en quelque sorte ma révolution de sans-culotte sous la jupe. Histoire de slop ... «madmoiZelle.com, Nov 11»
