Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun A radical republican from the urban lower and artisanal classes during the French Revolution.
- noun A revolutionary extremist.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun Literally, one who is without breeches: a name given to the poorer men of Paris who were prominent in the first French Revolution and took part in the attacks upon the court, the Bastille, etc.
- noun Hence An advanced Republican; a revolutionist; by extension, a communist or anarchist.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun A fellow without breeches; a ragged fellow; -- a name of reproach given in the first French revolution to the extreme republican party, who rejected breeches as an emblem peculiar to the upper classes or aristocracy, and adopted pantaloons.
- noun Hence, an extreme or radical republican; a violent revolutionist; a Jacobin.
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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Sectional assemblies were typically the hotbeds of direct democracy and sans-culotte militancy.
Annotations 2007
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Hanriot was elected commander of the sans-culotte contingent of the Paris national guard after his participation in the uprising against Louis XVI on 10 August 1792.
Names 2007
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With his friend Billaud-Varenne, Collot d'Herbois was installed as a sans-culotte member of the Committee of Public Safety after popular unrest in
Names 2007
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Especially through its influence over sans-culotte activism, the Commune expanded its political role as the Revolution progressed.
Annotations 2007
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February 1794, he became associated with calls for sans-culotte insurrection and with the faction of Hébert, with whom he was executed on 24 March.
Names 2007
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(Thanks to threader sans-culotte for pointing us to this.)
08/18/2005 2005
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One need not share the values or worldview of a sans-culotte, in order to arrive at a justified appraisal of those values and worldview.
Philosophy of History Little, Daniel 2007
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He asserted that the family of the tyrant ought not to be better treated than any sans-culotte family; and he had caused a resolution to be passed by which the sort of luxury in which the prisoners in the Temple were maintained was to be suppressed.
Archive 2007-10-14 de Brantigny........................ 2007
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He asserted that the family of the tyrant ought not to be better treated than any sans-culotte family; and he had caused a resolution to be passed by which the sort of luxury in which the prisoners in the Temple were maintained was to be suppressed.
The Trial Of Marie-Antoinette 14 Oct. 1793 de Brantigny........................ 2007
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But if we were a Republic — you know I am an old Jacobin, sans-culotte and terrorist — if this were a real Republic with the Convention sitting and a Committee of Public Safety attending to national business, you would all get your heads cut off.
The Arrow of Gold 2006
rolig commented on the word sans-culotte
See discussion at sans-culottes.
October 9, 2008