  We exhibit static solutions of multi-flavour QCD in two dimensions that have
the quantum numbers of baryons and mesons, constructed out of quark and
anti-quark solitons. In isolation the latter solitons have infinite energy,
corresponding to the presence of a string carrying the non-singlet colour flux
off to spatial infinity. When $N_c$ solitons of this type are combined, a
static, finite-energy, colour singlet solution is formed, corresponding to a
baryon. Similarly, static meson solutions are formed out of a soliton and an
anti-soliton of different flavours. The stability of the mesons against
annihilation is ensured by flavour conservation. The static solutions exist
only when the fundamental fields of the bosonized Lagrangian belong to
$U(N_c{\times}N_f)$ rather than to $SU(N_c) \times U(N_f)$. Discussion of
flavour symmetry breaking requires a careful treatment of the normal ordering
ambiguity. Our results can be viewed as a derivation of the constituent quark
model in QCD$_2$, allowing a detailed study of constituent mass generation and
of the heavy quark symmetry.
