The "scabbard" Cane

As the sword is no longer admitted and as the streets at night aren't more secure than before, well!

They wear it as well, but dissimulated in the cane, that will be name "scabbard" Cane, then "with sword" and finally "sword-cane".

Ah mind! The sword is in the Cane.

Some could be found before the revolution and this, from the sixteenth century on. Accidents, Canes made on demand for the happy few. But we are at the cross roads. The sword-cane becomes more common.

Here are the Records of the section debates in Paris. -- Many of these begin March 28, 1793, and contain the deliberations of revolutionary committees; for example, F7, 2475, the section of the Pikes or of the Place Vendôme.

We see by the official reports dated March 28 and the following days that the suspected were deprived all weapons, even the smallest, every species of sword-cane, including dress-swords with steel or silver handles.

Domiciliary visits in Mortagne during the electoral period of 1791.

"the principal clubbists, associated with the dubious part of the National Guard," spread through the streets in squads:

the houses of the nobles and of other suspected persons are invaded. All the weapons, "guns, pistols, swords, hunting-knives, and sword-canes," are carried off.

The archives of Yonne (a French county), gathered by Thierry and Florence Lefebvre, tell us that the citizen Mrs Quinquet wrote a petition on 10 Pluviose of Year IV (1st February 1796), to claim for various personal effects that had been taken away by the municipality of Saint-Denis sur Ouanne and in particular "a woman sword-cane of which the handle was broken" . Source: http://olijuseb.free.fr/bizzactes.htm.