“Sans-culottes,” declared the Annales patriotiques et littéraires of August 25, 1793, “are not the ‘trouserless ones’ as generally asserted. It was the arrogant presumption of the aristocracy that invented this term [...], yet precisely because they were so called by the aristocrats, the friends of liberty took this epithet as a badge of honor. They call themselves sans-culottes in order to make clear [...] that they want nothing to do with the aristocrats and stand with the broad populace.”