For a time, executions by guillotine were a popular form of entertainment that attracted great crowds of spectators, with vendors selling programs listing the names of the condemned. But more than being popular entertainment alone during the Terror, the guillotine symbolized revolutionary ideals: equality in death equivalent to equality before the law; open and demonstrable revolutionary justice; and the destruction of privilege under the "Ancien Régime", which used separate forms of execution for nobility and commoners. The Parisian "sans-culottes", then the popular public face of lower-class patriotic radicalism, thus considered the guillotine a positive force for revolutionary progress.