The gate itself had three means of egress; each of these was guarded by two men with fixed bayonets at their shoulders, but otherwise dressed like the others, in rags-with bare legs that looked blue and numb in the cold-the sans-culottes of revolutionary Paris.
"The League of the Scarlet Pimpernel"
Baroness Orczy
The Emperor was in white culottes courtes, white-silk stockings and low shoes, as were the rest of the gentlemen.
"In the Courts of Memory 1858-1875."
L. de Hegermann-Lindencrone
These brave fellows received the apprehensions expressed on that head with indignation, and said that property could be in no danger, because all the world knew it was under the protection of the sans-culottes.
"The Works of the Right Honourable Edmund Burke, Vol. VI. (of 12)"
Edmund Burke