Joseph Bara, also written Barra (30 July 1779 in Palaiseau – 7 December 1793 in Jallais) was a young French republican drummer boy at the time of the Revolution.He was in fact too young to join the army but attached himself to a unit fighting counter revolutionaries in Vendée. After his death General J.-B. Desmarres gave this account, by letter, to the Convention.