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  • The Cult of Reason enjoyed a certain support among the sans-cullotes before the persecution of the Hebertists drove it underground.

    Archive 2008-05-04 de Brantigny........................ 2008

  • The Cult of Reason enjoyed a certain support among the sans-cullotes before the persecution of the Hebertists drove it underground.

    The Cathedral of Notre Dame and Robespierre de Brantigny........................ 2008

  • The massacre was the work of the san-cullotes, the trouserless ones, who felt that Paris and the de-facto government would be in danger should they leave to fight the Duke of Bruswicks forces assembled for an attack to restore the throne.

    Charlotte Corday a Short Biography de Brantigny........................ 2007

  • The massacre was the work of the san-cullotes, the trouserless ones, who felt that Paris and the de-facto government would be in danger should they leave to fight the Duke of Bruswicks forces assembled for an attack to restore the throne.

    Archive 2007-12-16 de Brantigny........................ 2007

  • I ought, he said, to have refused all participation in such _sans cullotes_ insolence; to carry it was to acknowledge it as fit to be carried.

    Autobiographical Sketches Thomas De Quincey 1822

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