During the French Revolution, the poorer men and women of Paris who supported the Jacobins came to be known as the sans-culottes. What does this name literally mean?
Answer & explanation
Correct answer: option 1
The correct answer is Option (1) → Those without knee breeches
Sans-culottes literally means ‘those without knee breeches’. Knee breeches were worn by the nobility, so the poorer Parisians who backed the Jacobins took the name and wore long trousers instead.