Un soldat de la liberte
Quand il est par elle exalt6
Vaut mieux a lui seul que cent esclaves

-Theodore Rousseau, 1793
[A soldier of liberty, exalted by her, is worth more than a hundred slaves]
In 1793, Year I of the French Republic, the town of St. Quentin in Picardy changed the name of one of its streets from rue Ste. Catherine to rue Grenadier Malfuson. Malfuson was a "soldier of liberty," one of the volun- teers of 1792, who had died in battle around Lille. To name a street af...