Question

Without breeches, these members of the Paris Commune considered themselves ordinary patriots. (They wore long trousers instead of knee length breeches of the nobles.)

Answer 1

Answer:

Sans-culottes

Explanation:

Sans-culottes a visible group of people by the end of nineteenth century, who was said to have played a huge part in the French revolution of 1789.  

The name sans-culottes was associated with their clothing at that time and they are made of working class people who either had their own business or worked as laborers that earned wages.

They never liked the breeches won by the people of upper or middle class persons, they rather said that there should not be any form of discrimination based on clothing.