The deputies, by reiterating the requirement to wear the cockade, changed its thrust from punishing bad citizens to forming good ones.
They became, in effect, public functionaries, with the cockade as a badge of office.
It removes the prohibition on bands, cockades and ribbons.
I see no objection to cockades, ribbons or other marks of distinction.
On their heads they wore a hat made of felt, with three points, with gold braid hemmed at its edge and a red cockade.
The matching hat had a small cockade of feathers in gold, silver and ivory, each trimmed with a crystal.
However, many soldiers continued to either pin the cross to the cockade or wear the cockade without the cross.
The tricolour flag is derived from the cockades used in the 1790s.
