The Sans-Culottes: The Popular Movement and Revolutionary Government, 1793-1794

by Albert Soboul (Author), Albert Soboul (Author), Remy Inglis Hall (Translator)

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  Paperback
  1980

  $49.15

  A phenomenon of the pre-industrial age, the Sans-Culottes--master craftsmen, shopkeepers, small merchants, domestic servants--were as hostile to the ideas of capitalist bourgeoisie as they were to those of the ancien regime which was overthrown in the first years of the Revolution. Here is a detailed portrait of who these people were and a sympathetic account of their moment in history.