"The Legendary French Drummer Boy Joseph Bara" Topic
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| Tango01 | 20 Mar 2019 4:12 p.m. PST |
"The legendary French drummer boy Joseph Bara was raised to the status of hero in the 1790s. His story begins with his birth on 30 July 1779 to a woodranger and a domestic servant, both of whom worked at the Palaiseau estate of the Condés. Unfortunately, while Bara was still a youth, his father died, and, so, when the French politician Lazare Carnot appealed for men and created the conscription called levée en masse to raise any army, Bara's mother enrolled him as a volunteer in the army at the tender age of twelve. He was then attached to a unit that fought counter revolutionaries in Vendée, and, it was during this time that he was killed. A General J.B. Desmarres gave a written account of his death to the Convention that stated: Despite Desmarres written account, another more interesting story began to circulate. It happened after Maximilien Robespierre read about Bara and realized the propaganda value of his story. Robespierre then seized upon it and turned Bara's circumstances into something a bit more appealing. The new story went something like this:…" link link Main page
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