Question

who were sanculottes

Answer 1

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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.

Answer 2

The Jacobins were came to be known as sans culottes literally meaning without knee breeches.