The less affluent used long trousers and no socks and became known as the Sans-culottes which became, as mentioned in vol.II.a nickname for the revolutionary proletariat.

(SR.)] [Footnote 11114: Moniteur, (Speech by Danton, March 26, 1794.) "In creating revolutionary committees the desire was to establish a species of dictatorship of citizens the most devoted to liberty over those who rendered themselves suspects."] [Footnote 11115: Mallet-Dupan, II., 8.

(February, 1794).

"At this moment the entire people is disarmed.

Not a gun can be found either in town or country.