Revolutionary cavalry officer's saber. Checkered wooden handle (later). Chased brass mounting. Guard with one branch and shell (accident, missing part, weld). Curved, flat-backed blade with counter-edge and sides, engraved, gilded and one-third blued (wear). Brass two-ring scabbard with engraved and embossed chased decoration of arms, scales, flowers and oak leaves. The back of the scabbard is engraved "Honneur à Hoche, les citoyens de Montreuil 1795". As is. Composite reassembly, later scabbard and attribution (20th century). The attribution refers to General Louis Lazare HOCHE (1768-1797) and his birthplace, the village of Montreuil near Versailles.