The Sans-Cullotes During the French Revolution :: History

The Sans-Cullotes During the French Revolution 1793 was an important year during the French Revolution, business leader Louis XVI was executed for his perjury, amongst other crimes. A month later, France decl ard warfare on Great Britain, causing food riots in Paris. There were in like manner various Federalist revolts that erupted in many important provincial centres against Paris domination. The blood is a public document, due to the fact that it was published in a newsprint, Le Pre Duchesne. Pre Duchesne was a pertain given to certain pamphleteers, who became the voice of the sans-culottes, pro-revolutionary town folk that didnt wear breeches, nevertheless wore workmens trousers as a policy-making gesture amongst the works class civilians. Le Pre Duchesne was written and published by Jacques-Ren Hbert, a French journalist and revolutionary, he gained the support of the working classes through his newspaper and was prominent in the Cordeliers. Hbert was obviously intere sted in gaining political power through the general public with his pro-revolutionary views, however, eventually he was sentenced to finale by the tribunal on the charge of formenting insurrection. Jacques-Ren Hbert provides useful instruction in the extract taken from Le Pre Duchesne, on the sans-culottes. He gives fairly detailed descriptions on who the sans-culottes really were The sans-culotte is useful because he knows how to plough a field, to forge iron, use a saw, to file, to roof a house, to make shoes-and to spill his blood to the last drop for the safety of the republic In the first separate of the extract, the cream of sans-culotterie, is used to describe the finest of the working class sans-culottes. This phrase is immediatly followed by, the garrets of the working-men, in this case the word garrets, means the attics or rooms in a roof. At the bottom of the first paragraph the author, mentions lAmi des Lois, this was a French theatrical comedy at the time, followed by Chaste Suzanne, which was a popular operetta. The citizenesses in the gallery, is used in the second paragraph to describe the women that the upper-class men would seek to attain approval of. In the final paragraph, the sans-culotte always has his sword with the edge sharpened, sprightly to cut off the ears of all opponents of the Revolution, is symbolic for uprising and offense of the pro-revolutionary sans-culottes. In the extract, the testimony that the author, Jacques-Ren Hbert, wishes to convey is that, although the sans-culottes, are lower, working-class citizens, they are still important and essential to the French Republic.