Shown in this 1912 illustratilon is the boy who died for Republic Joseph Barra (also spelled Bara) —the legendary French Drummer boy in the French Revolution. A drummer boy who served in the French revolutionary army; he refused to surrender to the Royalists and was bayoneted on 7 December 1793; an icon of the revolutionary propaganda, his heroic death was celebrated in songs and in arts,

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