Muscadin, the fashionable anti-Jacobin

Meaning

Lemma.

The muscadin is represented here by fashionable dress and an imposing stick, with anti-Jacobin street aggression. Julie has a muscadin’s outfit made and rouses passers-by against Jacobins; later a young muscadin points his cudgel towards Marat’s bust. The word therefore combines social style with political action in these scenes. Julie’s adoption of the costume does not erase her grief for Chassagne, which the narration explicitly says persists.