Badges under the Revolution

The badges carried by the deputies and the representatives of authority of the Republic changed during the Revolution.

After the abolition of the costumes differentiating the deputies from the three orders to the general states, the elected officials were identifiable only by one round chart carrying on a side the currency “the nation, the law, the king” between branches of oak and olive-tree, other side a sequence number, the name of the deputy and that of the department represented.

Under the Assembled legislative one

The legislative Assemblée decides by decree of July 12th 1792, the port by the deputies when they would exert an official function, of a ribbon to the three colors in three bands heavy showers, the whole in saltire, with the bottom of the Tables of the Law, being presented as a gilded, opened metal book and carrying to the recto the word “Constitution”, with the back the words “human rights”. The legislative Parliament fixed into 1792 the badges of the departmental administrators and districts, of the prosecutors general-syndics, who carried a tricolor ribbon in saltire and a medal with the inscription “respect to the law”, out of metal gilded for the departmental administrators and the prosecutors general-syndics, out of metal silver plated for the representatives of the districts. September 15th, 1792, the port of these badges by people not having right was repressed there by two years of prison and the capital punishment if the culprit had been used for himself about it to exert acts of authority.

Under Convention

The Convention returned to the system of charts.

Under the Directory

The deputies of the the Council of the Five hundred and the deputies of the Conseil of Old the carried medals. The mayors and the city council men had their badges regulated by the law of March 11th 1790, which prescribed to them the port in the performance of their duties of a scarf of three colors (blue, white, red) in cross-belt, attached of a node and decorated of a fringe of color gold for the mayor, white for the municipal officers and violet for the prosecutor of the commune.

Sources

History and Dictionnaire of the French revolution 1789-1799 of Jean Tulard, Jean-François Beech, Alfred Fierro
Text of the decree of July 12th, 1792 in Parliamentary records, First Series, Volume 46 (Of June 30th, 1792 at the evening, July 20th, 1792 at the evening.) page 380 and 381 digitized and visible on Gallica.bnf.fr * Medallion of Function Gilded " RESPECT In LOI" Collection zitocland, photograph zitocland

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