Sans-Culottes

Cards (3)

  • The rioters and demonstrators of Paris were called the sans-culottes.
  • Essentially workers of the city: craftsmen, tradespeople, shop owners and their employees.
  • Unrest on the streets of Paris was both a cause and a consequence of the increasing radicalism of the political clubs and men like Danton, Desmoulins and Marat.