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It's Lienhart/Humbert - a very valuable work about the French army ... the plate is published here: http://www.grosser-generalstab.de/lh/lh1/lh1_03.html
And the complete work on the site of my friend Lars-Holger Thümmler at http://www.grosser-generalstab.de/lh/lh.html
Kind regards
Markus Stein"Wenn wir geboren werden, weinen wir, weil wir diese große Narrenbühne betreten" (King Lear) ... jedem also sein ganz persönliches (Hof-) Narrenleben
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Thank you, Markus - you are a Gentleman. An excellent resource.
Another resource which will be of interest to yourself and others, regarding French uniforms:
There are bad examples here, but plenty of good examples. The information accompanying the illustrations can be misleading or incorrect. Better to ignore it.
This page shows all countries (for uniforms):
The following (French and English language) offers an vast number of free books to download relating to the Napoleonic period (including German language), eg La Sabretache journals, memoirs (Napoleon, Ney, Segur, Junot, etc):
This is an American site offering free books in all languages:
And another (make sure 'Full view only' in the box is always selected):
Grant.
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Lienhart and Humbert - the source has to be taken with care - there the topic is very broad - the authors cannot be competent in all subjects.
for example, the Bavarians in their super light blue uniform give a completly wrong impression about their coat colour.
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