-
That's not what it meant
-
What it meant was not wearing fancy kind of aristocratic breeches,
-
and it became identified with a form of political behavior.
-
You could be an aristocrat,
-
and there were liberal aristocrats,
-
in a meeting in a club called the Club of the Thirty,
-
who helped push the Revolution really toward constitutional monarchy,
-
at least in the beginning.
-
If you were against the Revolution, you were an aristo.
-
You were an aristocrat.
-
If you were for the Revolution, you were part of the people.
-
You chose the color red,