0
Sans Culottes literally means: without pants. Men who were dressed poorly and shabby (almost like a homeless person) were called sans culottes. During the French Revolution this clothing style became popular and soon almost all men supporting the revolution wore shabby clothing a la sans culottes.
Still curious? Ask our experts.
Chat with our AI personalities
Lao
Ezra
ProfessorAdd your answer:
Earn +20 pts
How many sans culottes were there?
there were about 5,000 of them there were about 5,000 of them
What was the radical group named for the style of breeches its members wore?
They were called the "sans-culottes", because they did not wear "culottes" which were the type of undergarments that aristocratic Frenchmen usually wore. Instead, they typically wore trousers.
In what ways did emigres and sans culottes have opposite goals?
The sans-culottes represented the "average" people, while the emigres were the nobles who had fled France during the revolution. They had almost no goals in common.
Who were the people without knee breeches during the eighteenth century?
The Sans Culottes
Who are the People at the very bottom of french society?
During the revolution they were called commoners. Among them, there were also some sans-culottes (beggars and homeless people).
