Grenadiers of the French Imperial Guard (private and officer). Infantry soldier in blue coat, red epaulettes, white trousers and gaiters, holding a bearskin with brass plate. Grenadiers a pied. Officier et Soldat Garde Imperiale. 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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