Summer uniforms of the French foot chasseurs, Old Guard. Sergeant in bicorne, blue coat, buff breeches, gold epaulettes. Soldier in bearskin, blue coat, red epaulettes, gaiters, armed with musket. Chasseur a pied (grande tenue d'ete), Sergent de Chasseurs a pied (petite tenue d'ete). Garde. Handcoloured woodcut by Brugnot after an illustration by Hippolyte Bellangé from Laurent de l’Ardeche’s Histoire de Napoleon, Paris, 1840.

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