The dreadful bludgeon stick
This is what we can read in "Lecture pour
tous" of 1907 :
 "Times
are troubled. The dreadful bludgeon stick of the Incroyables appears; a heavy
gnarled and uneven bludgeon, that twists in spiral, rigged up with a cat gut
and sometimes concealing a sword blade."
"This brief and tragic dialogue has many times
been recalled. A "sans-culotte", in the street, shout out with insolence to a
Muscadin, all black dressed, about his strange appearance: "For whom are you in
mourning, citizen? - For you, my boy! " And the "sans-culotte", the head split,
rolled along the gutter. "
 
The Muscadin reaction, in 1795, gave us
twisted Canes made of steel, or of wood, kind of long cork-screw, like a
rifle's switch, adequate to attack the Jacobins.
On the right typical Muscadin's Canes.
On the left, this natural sculpture slightly
worked. Height 92 cm. And this other, on the right, fully sculpted. Height
nearly 110 cm.
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Apart from the steel Canes, the Muscadins hold
tremendous bludgeons, that do not disdain, hoever, the ornaments. The
Incroyables of the Directoire will handle the club twisted in spiral, rough,
heavy, unsightly, and considered however as the essential accessory of the
dandy, who twirl it while walking. In "Musée de la mode et du costume:
indispensables accessoires" 1983.
Let's discover two rare bludgeon sticks in the
next room. |
