Page "French Revolution" Paragraph 115

The pileus cap is often red in color.

This type of cap was worn by revolutionaries at the fall of the Bastille.

According to the Revolutions de Paris, it became " the symbol of the liberation from all servitudes, the sign for unification of all the enemies of despotism.

" The pileus competed with the Phrygian cap, a similar cap that covered the ears and the nape of the neck, for popularity.

The Phrygian cap eventually supplanted the pileus and usurped its symbolism, becoming synonymous with republican liberty.