Ubiquitous use, however contested, highlighted practical problems related to the fabrication and provision of cockades. In the context of discussions of patrie en danger legislation, Broussonnet noted that in the countryside many couldn’t afford to buy a cockade; one consequence of this was that people made their own. This resulted in variations which were as disturbing as they were irregular, such that, in September 1793, ‘revolutionary cavalry’ decided it was advisable to ban them.14 September