Editing French Revolution (section)

====Cockade, ''tricolore'', and liberty cap====
[[File:Sans-culotte.jpg|thumb|right|upright=0.7|''[[Simon Chenard as a Sans-Culotte]]'' by [[Louis-Léopold Boilly]], 1792. A ''[[sans-culotte]]'' and Tricoloure]]

[[Cockade]]s were widely worn by revolutionaries beginning in 1789. They pinned the blue-and-red cockade of Paris onto the white cockade of the ''Ancien Régime''. [[Camille Desmoulins]] asked his followers to wear green cockades on 12 July 1789. The Paris militia, formed on 13 July, adopted a blue and red cockade. Blue and red are the traditional colours of Paris, and they are used on the city's coat of arms. Cockades with various colour schemes were used during the storming of the Bastille on 14 July.{{Sfn|Crowdy|2004|p=42}}

The Liberty cap, also known as the [[Phrygian cap]], or [[Pileus (hat)|pileus]], is a brimless, felt cap that is conical in shape with the tip pulled forward. It reflects Roman republicanism and liberty, alluding to the Roman ritual of [[manumission]], in which a freed slave receives the bonnet as a symbol of his newfound liberty.{{Sfn|Harden|1995|pp=66–102}}