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Inflamed
by their poverty and hatred of wealth, the SANS-CULOTTES insisted that
it was the duty of the government to guarantee them the right to existence.
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Such a
policy ran counter to the bourgeois aspirations of the National Assembly.
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The sans-culottes
demanded that the revolutionary government immediately increase wages, fix
prices, end food shortages, punish hoarders and most important, deal with the
existence of counter-revolutionaries.
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In terms of social ideals the sans-culottes
wanted laws to prevent extremes of both wealth and property. itself.
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Source:http://www.historyguide.org/intellect/lecture13a.html
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