Parisian sans-culottes

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The Parisian sans-culottes were radical working-class revolutionaries in Paris who played a key role in driving the most militant phases of the French Revolution.

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Predicate Object
instanceOf collective agent in the French Revolution
revolutionary political group
social class segment
activeIn French Revolution
alliedWith Montagnards in the National Convention
radical Jacobins
country Kingdom of France
decline Thermidorian Reaction
surface form: Thermidorian Reaction of 1794

repression by post-Terror governments
etymology French term meaning "without knee-breeches"
historicalSignificance helped push the Revolution toward its most militant phases
symbol of popular radicalism in the French Revolution
ideology direct democracy at the local level
hostility to aristocracy and clergy
price controls on basic goods
social and economic equality
influencedBy Enlightenment ideas of equality
economic hardship and food shortages
location Paris
notableDemand fixed prices for bread
greater political participation for the poor
punishment of counter-revolutionaries
opposedTo Girondins
aristocracy
hoarders and speculators
monarchists
organizedIn popular societies
revolutionary committees
sections of Paris
politicalOrientation anti-monarchist
populist egalitarian
radical republican
roleInEvent Storming of the Tuileries Palace
surface form: August 10, 1792 insurrection

Journée of 31 May–2 June 1793
September Massacres
surface form: September Massacres of 1792

popular pressure during the Reign of Terror
Storming of the Bastille
surface form: storming of the Bastille
socialBackground journeymen
laborers
petty artisans
shopkeepers
urban working class
supportedPolicy Law of the Maximum
right to work and subsistence
universal male suffrage
timePeriod late 18th century
typicalClothing Phrygian cap
long trousers instead of aristocratic knee-breeches
short jacket (carmagnole)

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Storming of the Tuileries Palace attacker Parisian sans-culottes
Montagnards socialBase Parisian sans-culottes
September Massacres perpetrator Parisian sans-culottes
Storming of the Bastille mainParticipants Parisian sans-culottes
this entity surface form: Parisian revolutionaries
Cordeliers Club alliedWith Parisian sans-culottes
this entity surface form: sans-culottes
Insurrection of 31 May – 2 June 1793 hasParticipant Parisian sans-culottes
this entity surface form: sans-culottes
Insurrection of 31 May – 2 June 1793 supportedBy Parisian sans-culottes
this entity surface form: sans-culottes
L'Ami du peuple associatedWith Parisian sans-culottes
this entity surface form: Paris sans-culottes
editing L'Ami du peuple advocatesFor Parisian sans-culottes
this entity surface form: sansCulottes
editing L'Ami du peuple targetsAudience Parisian sans-culottes
this entity surface form: ParisSansCulottes
The Mountain socialBase Parisian sans-culottes
Paris Commune (1792) politicalAlignment Parisian sans-culottes
this entity surface form: sans-culotte movement
Paris Commune (1792) supportedBy Parisian sans-culottes
this entity surface form: sans-culottes
royal veto of Louis XVI controversialFor Parisian sans-culottes
Jacques Hébert politicalMovement Parisian sans-culottes
this entity surface form: Enragés
Bloody Week combatant Parisian sans-culottes
this entity surface form: Communards
Suppression of the Paris Commune victim Parisian sans-culottes
this entity surface form: Communards