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Define the word sans-culottes(related to french revolution)

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sans-culottes simply means "without fancy trousers". it describes the working/peasant class during thr French Revolution who resented the fancy clothes the rich wore
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Les sans-culottes : ce sont des révolutionnaires, ils portent un pantalon long,ils ne portent pas la culotte(pantalon court) et les bas comme la haute bourgeoisie, la noblesse.
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