of regulation type, with broad double-edged blade (the tip now triangular), hilt comprising a pair of strong down-curved iron arms with copper alloy bud-shaped finials, iron knuckle-guard, block-shaped copper alloy guard cast with a Phrygian cap in low relief on each side of the langets, integral grip cast with an overlapping design of leaves and oval-section pommel, in its fabric-covered wooden scabbard with large brass mounts decorated with neoclassical designs, 48.0 cm blade

The Ecole de Mars was created on 13 Prairial An II (1 June 1794) and disbanded in September of the same year. The school was for teenaged men and organised along classical lines with three corps of 'milleries' each composed of ten 'centuries', in turn divided into ten 'decuries'. See Ariès 1975, fasc. XXIII.