This was the reign of the proletariat, and the sans-culotte always emerged triumphant in a conflict against the well-to-do.
"The League of the Scarlet Pimpernel"
Baroness Orczy
Quite like the chevalier sans peur et sans culotte.
"Marion's Faith."
Charles King
The new habit of the Directory is so charmingly fancied, that it is impossible not to fall in love with so well-dressed a Constitution;-the costume of the sans-culotte Constitution of 1793 was absolutely insufferable.
"The Works of the Right Honourable Edmund Burke, Vol. VI. (of 12)"
Edmund Burke