Madame Sans–Culotte
Title
Madame Sans–Culotte
Subject
Women of the Third Estate
Sans-culottes
Description
Emerging from urban revolutionary politics was a workers’ movement called the sans–culottes, a reference to the attire of male artisans. Unlike their wealthier compatriots, they did not wear knee breeches, preferring pants. Thus were they named sans–culottes, which may be translated as "without breeches." Despite such a masculinist appellation, their companions also bore the name. Here is a very respectable but modest woman fulfilling the domestic role most sans–culottes men would have desired for women. She would seem to lack the boldness that women did adopt anyway, as in their march to Versailles in October 1789.
Creator
None Identified
Source
Bibliothèque Nationale de France
Date
1793-1794
Rights
Public Domain
Relation
http://chnm.gmu.edu/revolution/d/543/|Michel Hennin. <em>Estampes relatives à l'Histoire de France</em>. Tome 134, Pièces 11754-11861, période : 1793
Format
JPEG
Language
French
Identifier
543
Original Format
Engraving
Physical Dimensions
24.5 x 17 cm
Title (English)
Madam sans Culotte
Citation
None Identified, “Madame Sans–Culotte,” LIBERTY, EQUALITY, FRATERNITY: EXPLORING THE FRENCH REVOUTION, accessed December 24, 2024, https://revolution.chnm.org/d/543.