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Quotes About Sans-culotte

The Bowery b'hoys were delighted ... to observe a pair of their favorites in league against their natural enemy, for Clancey detests our democracy, finds even the Whigs radical, the Adams family vulgar, Daniel Webster a sans-culotte . He fills the pages of his magazine America with libellous comments on all things American. Despite a rich wife and five children, he is a compulsive sodomite, forever preying on country boys new to the city.
~ Gore Vidal
I am thirty-three—the age of the good sans-culotte Jesus; an age fatal to revolutionists.
~ Camille Desmoulins
I am thirty-three - the age of the good Sans-culotte Jesus; an age fatal to revolutionists.
~ Camille Desmoulins
Chinaco: traducción inmediata del sans-culotte francés, "sin pantalones". La palabra chinaco se usó México durante la guerra de Independencia pero no se hará popular hasta 1862. Fernando Escalante Gonzalbo: "hicieron del insulto un emblema", en Ciudadanos imaginarios.
~ Paco Ignacio Taibo II