If so, Themis Sansculotte must be lucky; for she was brief!

The similarity between the words "sandlotter" and "sansculotte" is problematically significant, but indubitably suggestive.

I am one of the dispossessed, a sansculotte, a proletarian, or, in simpler phraseology addressed to your understanding, a tramp.' "

She certainly had not the look or manner or speech of a peasant, or of one of the urban sansculotte women.

The sansculotte was as familiar a subject in Gillray's 1793 output, as had been the inadequacies of the British Royal Family in the previous year.

All those present were dressed in the black-shag spencer, the seedy black breeches, and down-at-heel boots, which had become recognised as the distinctive uniform of the sansculotte party.

With this ill-kempt sansculotte giant in front of him, he almost felt as if he were already arraigned before that awful, merciless tribunal, to which he had dragged so many innocent victims.

And so she allowed them to drag her through the sansculotte mob of Paris, who would have torn her to pieces then and there, so as not to delay the pleasure of seeing her die.

Such sight meets Lafayette, in the dusk of the evening, as he returns, successful with difficulty at Vincennes: Sansculotte Scylla hardly weathered, here is Aristocrat Charybdis gurgling under his lee!

It is in these places, in these months, that the epithet Sansculotte first gets applied to indigent Patriotism; in the last age we had Gilbert Sansculotte, the indigent Poet.

A grinning sansculotte, identifiable by his bare rump, fiddles whilst churches burn and nuns are hanged: the savage scene is given the ironical title of 'The Zenith of French Glory: the Pinnacle of Liberty'(12 February 1793).

Citizens denied 'activity,' which is facetiously made to signify a certain weight of purse, cannot buy blue uniforms, and be Guardsmen; but man is greater than blue cloth; man can fight, if need be, in multiform cloth, or even almost without cloth--as Sansculotte.

Peyrol looked thoughtfully at the door which the indignant sans-culotte had slammed after him.

He reminded me of a sans-culotte.

This was the reign of the proletariat, and the sans-culotte always emerged triumphant in a conflict against the well- to-do.

By the door of the salle the stable fork leaning against the wall seemed to have been forgotten by the sans-culotte.

Christ was the first sans-culotte.

Sans-Culotte, a privateer from Honfleur, commissioned in 1793.

But when the ruddy-faced farmer talks, his brooding anger makes him sound less like a peaceful country gentleman than a latter-day sans-culotte.

Had Hamilton lived, he would have been apoplectic at so much democracy, and made Chancellor Kent sound like a sans-culotte!

He served on Sans-Culotte.

An opposition group published a journal, Le Sans-culotte de Granville and Coutances.

He was nicknamed "the Sans-culotte of Le Midi".

Coburg was so certain of success that he was supposed to have said that if he were defeated, he would become a sans-culotte.

Sans-Culotte, a privateer from Dunkerque.

There's nary a sans-culotte in sight, and you'll have to make do with a prissy final shot of Marie-Antoinette's trashed bedchamber.

The sans-culotte's passion for instruction, coupled with his ambivalent attitude towards the literate and the hommes à talent, is almost quintessentially artisan.

Seven ships of the French Navy have born the name Sans-Culotte in honour of the Sans-culottes:

Sans-Culotte, a privateer from Île de France (now Mauritius), commissioned in October 1794.

She could also possibly be the Sans-Culotte the 8-gun HMS Rosecaptured in July 1796.

But by the time Robespierre was saying "Forgiveness is barbarity, tolerance is atrocity" even the dimmest sans-culotte should have noticed that something was up.

Note that the english characterization of 'Sans-Culotte' by the cartoonists meant 'without trousers' rather than without the knee breeches worn by the aristocracy.

Sans-Culotte, a privateer chasse-marée from Nantes, commissioned in December 1796 under François Aregnaudeau.

Source material of this kind will inevitably focus attention not so much on the average revolutionary, for that would imply some possibility of comparison, as on the orthodox sans-culotte.

In May 1795, Sans-Culotte was again renamed as a consequence of the Thermidorian Reaction, and took her best-known name of Orient.

The popular image of the sans-culotte has gained currency as an enduring symbol for the passion, idealism and patriotism of the common man of the French Revolution.

"There remains in the French imagination a sense of the sans-culotte against the castle," said Philippe d'Iribarne, author of "French Strangeness."