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François Joseph Bara, also written Barra (30 July 1779 in Palaiseau[1] – 7 December 1793 in Jallais), was a young French republican drummer boy at the time of the Revolution, and is known for his death and martyrdom at only 14 years old at the hands of pro-Monarchist forces at Vendée.
Bara's father was a woodranger and his mother was a domestic servant. Both worked in the Palaiseau district for the Princes of Condé. When Bara was twelve his father died, so when the Levée en masse was issued, his mother enlisted him as an army volunteer.[1]
Bara was too young to join the army but attached himself to a unit fighting counter revolutionaries in Vendée. After his death, General J.-B. Desmarres gave this account, by letter, to the convention. "Yesterday this courageous youth, surrounded by brigands, chose to perish rather than give them the two horses he was leading."[2]
The boy's death was seized on as an opportunity by revolutionaries, who praised him at the Convention's tribune saying that "only the French have thirteen-year-old heroes". But rather than simply being killed by Breton royalists who solely wanted to steal horses, Bara was transformed into a figure who denied the Ancien Régime at the cost of death. His story became that having been trapped by the enemy and being ordered to cry "Vive le Roi" ("Long live the King") to save his own life, he preferred instead to die crying "Vive la République" ("Long live the Republic").
His remains were to be transferred to the Panthéon during a revolutionary festival in his honour but the event was cancelled when Robespierre was overthrown the day before it was to take place.[2]
There is a statue in his honour at Palaiseau in the Southern suburbs of Paris.
Opera "Joseph Barra" by André Ernest Modeste Grétry
Referencesedit
^ abWalton, Geri (30 July 2018). "Joseph Bara: The Legendary French Drummer Boy". Geri Walton. Retrieved 15 November 2021.
^ abRoberts, Warren. Jacques-Louis David: Revolutionary Artist. pp. 85
^. apophtegme.com. Archived from the original on 2 March 2015. Retrieved 7 February 2015.
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