Book contents
- The French Revolution
- Worldmaking
- The French Revolution
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Acknowledgements
- Chapter OneIntroduction: Ideas as Evidence
- Chapter TwoConcepts of Revolution
- Chapter ThreeCauses and Causation
- Chapter FourCutting the Cable: Rousseau, Sieyès and the Idea of a Representative System
- Chapter FivePublic Debt as the Cement of Society
- Chapter SixConstituent Power and Political Power
- Chapter SevenThe Failure of the Feuillants
- Chapter EightThe Sans-Culottes
- Chapter NineRobespierre and the Politics of the Terror
- Chapter TenThe War for the World: Social Science and Imperial Power
- Chapter ElevenConclusion: The Legacy
- Index
Chapter Eight - The Sans-Culottes
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 31 May 2026
Book contents
- The French Revolution
- Worldmaking
- The French Revolution
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Acknowledgements
- Chapter OneIntroduction: Ideas as Evidence
- Chapter TwoConcepts of Revolution
- Chapter ThreeCauses and Causation
- Chapter FourCutting the Cable: Rousseau, Sieyès and the Idea of a Representative System
- Chapter FivePublic Debt as the Cement of Society
- Chapter SixConstituent Power and Political Power
- Chapter SevenThe Failure of the Feuillants
- Chapter EightThe Sans-Culottes
- Chapter NineRobespierre and the Politics of the Terror
- Chapter TenThe War for the World: Social Science and Imperial Power
- Chapter ElevenConclusion: The Legacy
- Index
Summary
There was a closer relationship between the French declaration of war of 20 April 1792 and the emergence of the sans-culottes as a political force than is now apparent in modern scholarship on the French Revolution. In the nineteenth century, the ministry responsible for taking France to war, the ministry made up of the political figures subsequently labelled Girondins, was once known as the sans-culotte ministry.
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