The pre-revolutionary peasants were upset by the gulf between the working classes and the upper classes and were ready to bring about a change in French society that would follow the Enlightenment philosophies. The people decided to work together to form a constitution for their country that would treat all men fairly under the law, granting no special privileges to upper-class citizens and equal voting rights for all. Their proper name, Sans-Culottes, is a symbol of their rejection of high-end luxury, as "Culottes" were the knee-length pants worn particularly by wealthy French citizens (the name literally meaning Sans Culottes). This movement was extremely popular because it addressed all poor people in France, urban and rural. Over time, the new just government was not fully realized and the Sans-Culottes grew angry to the point of violence in an attempt to bring about the changes promised by the early revolutionaries. The Sans-Culottes were a powerful driving force in the French Revolution and Reign of Terror due to the massive impact of their violence on society. French peasant women played an important role in the Revolution because of their aggressiveness, zeal and participation in the revolution. Sans-Culottes protests. There was riot police on February 25, 1973 where “there was a new crowd of citizens there… But we had brought with us many armed citizens who dispersed this crowd. We saw a citizen there... who influenced people and sowed trouble. The police had to quell another riot sparked by women's reaction to high sugar prices when "the women, above all, were the most enraged...and the most threatening...they were real furies", and the fact that “they had not burned”. anything… was a major win. ...... middle of paper ......hnson, Levy. Women in revolutionary Paris, 1789-1795. “Police Reports of Disturbances in Food Supplies (February 1793).” University of Illinois Press, 1979. Eds. Applewhite, Johnson, Levy. Women in revolutionary Paris, 1789-1795. “Participation of women in riots around the price of sugar, February 1792”. University of Illinois Press, 1979. Barbier, E.J.F. Chronicle of the regency and reign of Louis XV or Barbie's diary (1724-1725), vol. 1. “A bread riot”. Paris: G. Charpentier et Cie., 1857.Ed. Browning, Oscar. Count Gower's Dispatches. “A British observer of the September massacres”. Cambridge University Press, 1885. Ed. John Hardman. Documents of the French Revolution 1792-1795, vol. 2. “Father Duchesne, no. 313”. New York: Barnes & Noble Books, 1973. Marquis de Ferreriès. Unpublished correspondence. “The New Year’s Eve riot (April 28, 1789)”. (Paris, 1932).