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Those bonnets rouges are a symbol still worn by the figure of Marianne, the embodiment of France.

From BBC • Jan. 19, 2017

France witnessed the emergence of "les bonnets rouges" - a protest movement with its roots in Brittany, with its symbol of red hats taken from an earlier tax revolt.

From BBC • Dec. 27, 2013

The man who married Trotsky's secretary made his most interesting and rebellious characters girls: the piratical sisters, the Amazons, who "rattle our sabres to frighten the neighbours", ululate ferociously beneath their bonnets rouges.

From The Guardian • Dec. 19, 2010

You will, if we ever have any bonnets rouges in America.

From Stories by American Authors, Volume 2 by Various