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  • noun Alternative spelling of sans-culottide.

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  • are holidays following the last month of the year on the French Republican Calendar which was used following the French Revolution from approximately 1793 to 1805

    literally translated to "without pants"

    March 22, 2011

  • Wow.

    April 4, 2011

  • Wasn't there a "panvocalic pants" list somewhere?

    April 4, 2011

  • Yes. But should we add this if it means without pants?

    April 4, 2011

  • True, but you have to have had pants - or the idea of pants - to be without them. It's very French actually, being and nothingness and all that palaver.

    April 4, 2011

  • Wellington is not in this cafe, Paul Valéry is no longer here, and Sartre is not wearing pants?

    April 4, 2011

  • Yes, that's the idea. Ou sont les culottes d'antan?

    April 4, 2011

  • That explains a lot about Simone de Beauvoir.

    April 4, 2011

  • ...and why they spent all that time sitting around in cafes instead of standing proudly at the bar like ordinary folk.

    April 4, 2011

  • Make mine a kir sansculottes!

    A nos femmes!

    A nos chevaux!

    Et a ceux qui leur montent,

    Avec ou sans eperons!

    April 4, 2011

  • Source of that early French video game hit Pants Pants Revolution.

    April 5, 2011

  • Wait. Are "eperons" spurs?

    April 5, 2011

  • Why, yes. Yes, they are.

    April 6, 2011

  • I'll drink to that.

    April 6, 2011

  • See Sansculottides.

    April 6, 2011

  • Ah, beware the Sanculottides of March.

    April 7, 2011

  • It is the Simone Weil way!

    April 7, 2011