Joseph Bara
Bara was born in 1779 in Palaiseau. He was too young to join the army when the war broke out so instead he attached himself to a unit fighting counter revolutionaries in the Vendée. He died in the vicious fighting of the civil war.
An unfinished Jacques-Louis David painting from 1794 entitled The Death of Young Bara.
However in his death he was transformed into a martyr to the ideals of the Republic. Stories were told of how when they tried to make him shout “Vive le Roi” (“Long live the king”) he instead shouted “Vive la République” (Long live the Republic.). His remains were transferred to the Pantheon and a festival was formed in his honour.