Snippets of French History: les sans culottes

Several people have asked me to write a “in-a-nutshell” summary of the French Revolution.  But I just can’t.  The politics of the years leading up to the Revolution, and the different factions, and factions within factions, in a constantly-changing political situation would be impossible to fit in to anything other than a very fat book.  The French Revolution was riddled with legislation and counter-legislation, small groups gaining a bit of power and then receding, mass murders, beytrayals and atrocities, shifting regimes and groups within the regimes … I recall a professor at University saying that it was like ever-moving and churning vomit with no way of knowing who was where and what was next.

So.  So, I have decided to split it up in to several different in-a-nutshell groups, starting with the sans-culottes.

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