GK
WORLD HISTORY
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Foreigners
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the common people of Paris
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the Clergy
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The Estates General
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Detailed explanation-1: -The sans-culottes (French: [sɑ̃kylɔt], literally ‘without breeches’) were 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.
Detailed explanation-2: -The members of this club were known as San Culottes because they wore long striped pants worn by dock workers as the symbol of equality. The word “San Culottes” means those without knee breeches, and members of jacobian club refused to wear the knee breeches worn by the upper class to signify the end of their rule.
Detailed explanation-3: -The Jacobins came to be known as Sans-culottes, which literally means those without knee breeches.