The cleaver of the knowledge of Mars. 1794

Blade steel, straight, double-edged, without dolov, with the rib in the center. Blade without stamps. The combat end is strongly beveled. Ephesus zelenolistnye, the cast consists of stick and d-pad. The crossbar is straight, rectangular in cross-section, decorated with cast on her profile pictures of the God Mars in ancient helmet with one hand and the composition of military reinforcement on the other. The handle is brass, cylindrical shape, with diagonal grooves around the perimeter. The pommel is oval, flattened shape, also with grooves. The shank of the blade raslaan on the pommel. The scabbard is wooden, covered in red cloth, with brass device consisting of a tip, adorned with a shell Saint-Jacques, and composite the mouth with two rings for the harness.

The cleaver of the pupils of the Mars school, model 1794, is a French cleaver, the design of which was developed in 1794 by the artist Jacques-Louis David specifically for the Écule de Mars. Each cadet of the Mars school was given a cleaver, the scabbard of which differed depending on the rank. The difference was in the fabric of different colors that decorated the scabbard; some had blue fabric, others had yellow, others had red, and others had green. This weapon had no official name. It was named "The cleaver of the pupils of the Mars school, model 1794" in A. N. Kulinsky's book "European Cold Steel". In other sources, it is called a sword, a sword, and even analogies are drawn with the Roman gladius. The latter comparison has some foundation: since many French revolutionaries gravitated towards ancient culture, they revived Greek and Roman traditions in every possible way. The uniforms for the Écule de Mars cadets, who used this cleaver, were also designed (by the way, by the same Jacques-Louis David) in the Roman style.