sans-culottes

(noun)

The common people of the lower classes in late 18th century France, a great many of whom became radical and militant partisans of the French Revolution in response to their poor quality of life under the Ancien Régime.

Related Terms

  • Insurrection of August 10, 1792
  • Committee of Public Safety
  • Declaration of the Rights of Man and Citizen
  • Law of Suspects
  • Thermidorian Reaction
  • Reign of Terror
  • Feuillants
  • National Convention
  • Legislative Assembl
  • National Conventio
  • Legislative Assembly
  • Montagnards
  • National Conv
  • Girondins
  • sans-culotte
  • Jacobins

(noun)

The common people of the lower classes in late 18th century France, a great many of whom became radical and militant partisans of the French Revolution in response to their poor quality of life under the Ancien Régime.

Related Terms

  • Insurrection of August 10, 1792
  • Committee of Public Safety
  • Declaration of the Rights of Man and Citizen
  • Law of Suspects
  • Thermidorian Reaction
  • Reign of Terror
  • Feuillants
  • National Convention
  • Legislative Assembl
  • National Conventio
  • Legislative Assembly
  • Montagnards
  • National Conv
  • Girondins
  • sans-culotte
  • Jacobins

(noun)

The common people of the lower classes in late 18th century France, a great many of whom became radical and militant partisans of the French Revolution in response to their poor quality of life under the Ancien Régime.

Related Terms

  • Insurrection of August 10, 1792
  • Committee of Public Safety
  • Declaration of the Rights of Man and Citizen
  • Law of Suspects
  • Thermidorian Reaction
  • Reign of Terror
  • Feuillants
  • National Convention
  • Legislative Assembl
  • National Conventio
  • Legislative Assembly
  • Montagnards
  • National Conv
  • Girondins
  • sans-culotte
  • Jacobins

Examples of sans-culottes in the following topics:

  • Robespierre and the Committee of Public Safety

    • In June 1793, Paris sections took over the Convention, calling for administrative and political purges, a low fixed price for bread, and a limitation of the electoral franchise to sans-culottes alone.
    • The Jacobins identified themselves with the popular movement and the sans-culottes, who in turn saw popular violence as a political right.
    • The sans-culottes, exasperated by the inadequacies of the government, invaded the Convention and overthrew the Girondins.
  • The National Convention

    • The Montagnards, representing a considerably larger portion of the deputies, were much more radical and held strong connections to the sans-culottes of Paris.
    • The political deadlock, which had repercussions all over France, eventually drove both major factions to accept dangerous allies, royalists in the case of Girondins and the sans-culottes in that of the Montagnards.
    • In June 1792, 80,000 armed sans-culottes surrounded the Convention.
  • Citizen Gênet Affair

    • Genêt commissioned four privateering ships (the Republicaine, the Anti-George, the Sans-Culotte, and the Citizen Genêt) and organized American volunteers to fight Britain's Spanish allies in Florida.
  • Politics within the Revolutionaries

    • Because of this, the Jacobins, unlike other sects like the Girondins, were closely allied to the sans-culottes, who were a popular force of working-class Parisians that played a pivotal role in the development of the revolution.
    • In addition to siding with sans-culottes, the Montagnards aimed for a more repressive form of government that would institute a price maximum on essential consumer goods and would punish all traitors and enemies of the Republic.
  • The Thermidorian Reaction

    • Instead, the people that were involved with Robespierre in any way became the target, including many members of the Jacobin club, their supporters, individuals suspected of being past revolutionaries and the violent suppression of the sans-culottes by the Muscadin, a group of street fighters organized by the new government.
  • José de San Martín

  • Venice

    • Applying this approach in his San Zaccaria Altarpiece (1505), the high viewpoint, the uncluttered and interconnected figures arranged in space, and the subtle gestures all combine to form a tranquil yet majestic image .
    • Antonello's San Cassiano Altarpiece especially influenced Venetian painters, as it was one of the first of the large compositions in the sacra conversazione format which was perfected by Giovanni Bellini .
  • Bibliography

    • Applying modern principles of adult education, San Francisco: Jossey Bass.
    • An autobiographical journey, San Francisco: Jossey-Bass. 211 + xxii pages.
  • References

    • San Francisco: Jossey-Bass.
    • San Francisco: Jossey-Bass.
  • The Sand-Lot Incident

    • The Sandlot refers to an outdoor gathering place near San Francisco City Hall where Denis Kearney often spoke out against Chinese laborers.
    • During the Long Depression , he became popular by speaking to unemployed people in San Francisco, denouncing the railroad monopoly and immigrant Chinese workers, known as Coolies .
    • In July 1877, when anti-Chinese violence occurred in San Francisco, Kearney joined William Tell Coleman 's vigilante Public Safety Committee as a member of Coleman's "pick handle brigade. " By August 1877, however, Kearney had been elected Secretary of the newly formed Workingmen's Party of California , and often directed violent attacks on Chinese, including denunciations of the powerful Central Pacific Railroad , which had employed them in large numbers.
    • At an outdoor gathering place near San Francisco City Hall, known as "The Sandlot", he regularly spoke in front of crowds that numbered as many as 2,000 people.
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