Brewer's: Robespierre's Weavers

The fish-women and other female rowdies who joined the Parisian Guard, and helped to line the avenues to the National Assembly in 1793, and clamour “Down with the Girondists!”

Source: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, E. Cobham Brewer, 1894
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