I would look forward to hear views also from those here who specialize in French arms. This example has the distinctive features of the cadets sword from the Ecole du Mars (1794) including the Phrygian cap symbolic of liberty used in the Revolution, so of course thought would be simply a less embellished variant.
There are any number of speculations that might be plausible as this weapon does maintain that Phrygian cap distinctly so possibly a sidearm for organized units of Revolutionaries? perhaps fashioned by makers of the original Ecole swords?
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