Sword Officer Of Justice 19th Century.

Sword with a symmetrical straight blade with four sides and two grooves. Cast bronze frame. Rocket decorated with a farandole of foliage. Main guard tray decorated with a lictor's beam on a background of fallen flags. In a leather sheath with brass trim. length 95 cm In good general condition, I specify a break in the restored scabbard, visible in the photos.

- Gendarmerie brigade chief's sword, under the Third Republic, decorated with a lictor's fasces on six flags, it is often confused with a sword of the military justice service. However, in this service, the lictor's fasces on six flags is the exclusive attribute of senior officers, who are equipped with the chiselled sword of the common model. In addition, the lictor's bundle of military justice is furnished with ax heads, which is not the case for that of the gendarmerie. This detail is not neutral: the ax heads symbolize the right to inflict the death penalty, which only belongs to justice.

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