Uniform of the French Guards of Honour, 1813-1814. Light cavalry regiments in plumed shako, hussar-coat with frogging, breeches, boots, armed with sabre and musket, horse with mouton shabrack. Garde d'Honneur. 1814. Handcoloured woodcut by Andrew Best Leloir after an illustration by Hippolyte Bellangé from Laurent de l’Ardeche’s Histoire de Napoleon, Paris, 1840.

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