Court Members Sword 18/19th Century (n)

Court Member's Sword.
Ebony handle, silvered brass molding, ram's head keels,  engraved with floral decoration. Straight blade with two edges and flat centre, gilded and decorated with trophies, silvered brass, with cap button and two leather ridges, lyre-shaped dart. Consulate period.
Located at the Palais - Égalité (Palais-Royal) and composed of around a hundred members appointed by the senate, the Tribunate was one of the four assemblies established under the consulate by the constitution of the year VIII (1800). It participated, with the legislative body, in the procedure for adopting the law and was abolished in 1807