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This 6 page paper discusses the tensions between the Jacobins and the Sans culottes. Specific examples given. Bibliography lists 4 sources.
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those who have strong beliefs on both sides of the struggle. The Revolution, itself, may not have happened except for the convergence of several highly active political views and groups
who were influential at the time. The Jacobians and the sans culottes were among the most vocal and vehement of groups who added fuel to the already flammable situation in
Pre-revolutionary France. The sans culottes were a collection of tradesmen who were members of the commoners in French society. Many of them are what we might now call the middle
class, having some education, but being highly skilled in areas such as carpentry or farming. The term culottes comes from the fact that these people did not wear the fashionable
long breeches (pants) of the time, most obviously because they worked and labored for a living, in comparison to the upper class. However, not just the working class were associated
with the sans culottes. Many of the elites were involved in the sans culottes group most notably because they seemed to value unity over liberty. "Sans-culottism referred to the collectivist
ideology that demanded economic controls"(**). The culture and mindset of the sans culottes was that of the simple man. Most of
those who joined in this group had some education, but none to rival that of the privileged classes. However, they had begun to understand how vitally necessary they were to
the running of the country. Without someone to till the fields and to bring the food to market, or to mend clothing, or tend the livestock, the aristocracy could not
survive. A newspaper at the time led by a man named Herbert, published ostensibly sans culottes views and ended up becoming the mouthpiece for the organization, serving also to promote
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