sans-culotte

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Definition von sans-culotte im Englisch Englisch wörterbuch

A plebian Parisian, especially a lower-class republican during the French Revolution

Relevante Übersetzungen

sansculotte

in 1792, the French aristocrats, who wore fashionable breeches, applied the term to their despised extremist adversaries in the French Revolution, who had symbolically switched to pantaloons and soon adopted the term

sansculotte

generalized to any radical or even violent extremist in politics

sansculotte

person who lacks culture and refinement

sansculotte

lower class person

sansculotte

{i} (French) extreme radical republican in France during the Revolution; violent and strong extremist in politics

sansculotte

Hence, an extreme or radical republican; a violent revolutionist; a Jacobin

sansculotte

(French sans-culotte, "without breeches") In the French Revolution, one of the ill-clad and ill-equipped volunteers of the Revolutionary army; also a Parisian ultrademocrat of the Revolution. The working-class sansculottes wore long trousers to distinguish themselves from the upper classes, who wore knee-breeches (culotte). Allied with the Jacobins (see Jacobin Club) in the Reign of Terror, sansculottes included ultrademocrats of all classes. Their influence waned after the fall of Maximilien Robespierre in 1794. See also Jacques Hébert

sansculotte

A fellow without breeches; a ragged fellow; a name of reproach given in the first French revolution to the extreme republican party, who rejected breeches as an emblem peculiar to the upper classes or aristocracy, and adopted pantaloons

Silbentrennung

sans-cu·lotte

Etymologie

() From the French.