cockade(코케이드) : 모자에 다는 꽃 모양의 모표(帽標).
Phrygian cap with tricolor cockade, one of symbols of French Revolution, France, 18th century
Phrygian cap with tricolour cockade, one of the symbols of the French Revolution. France, 18th century.
The History of the Tricolor Cockade
Happy Bastille Day everyone! To commemorate this important (and complex!) day in history I’m going to tell you all about the history of the tricolor cockade.
The tricolor cockade has its origins very early in the French Revolution, in 1789. Only a few days after the storming and capture of the Bastille (the 17th of July) Jean Sylvain Bailly, newly elected mayor of Paris, offered the Louis XVI a tricolor cockade upon his visit to the Hotel de Ville in Paris, which the king accepted and pinned to his hat. (This was a major moment for the revolutionaries, but more on that later.) It was also given by LaFayette to the members of the newly created national guard. From there on, it became one of the most easily-recognized symbols of the French Revolution. But it went through a lot of changes in meaning before it was pinned to Enjolras’s Robespierre waistcoat. Before we can fully understand what the cockade means in Les Miserables, we have to understand what it meant to the people during the French Revolution. Then we’ll trace how the symbolism of the tricolor cockade changed from 1789 to 1832.