USA HISTORY

MAKING OF A NEW NATION 1776 1800

THE FRENCH REVOLUTION

Question [CLICK ON ANY CHOICE TO KNOW THE RIGHT ANSWER]
The working people of Paris that became key radical activists throughout the Revolution were called the:‘Sans Culottes’.
A
True
B
False
C
Either A or B
D
None of the above
Explanation: 

Detailed explanation-1: -The Jacobins call themselves ‘Sans Culottes’ because they wanted to distinguish themselves from the aristocracy. The sans-culottes were the working-class people of Paris and other cities who participated in the great movement of the French Revolution.

Detailed explanation-2: -sansculotte, French sans-culotte ("without knee breeches"), in the French Revolution, a label for the more militant supporters of that movement, especially in the years 1792 to 1795.

Detailed explanation-3: -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-4: -Sans-culottes, literally means ‘those without knee breeches. They were Jacobins who wore a particular kind of dress to proclaim the end of power wielded by wearers of knee breeches.

Detailed explanation-5: -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.

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