326 pp. French text. A definitive guide to the uniforms of Napoleon's cavalry, with detailed color illustrations throughout, from gouache paintings by George Charmy, a renowned French military uniform expert, historian, and illustrator. The plates in this book effectively reproduce 1300 color gouaches of the uniforms of Napoleon's cavalry Charmy's reputation led to his being one of the major uniform advisors to Abel Gance when he was making his famous movie, Napoleon. Together with plates depicting scenes of Chasseurs a Cheval, Hussards, Chevau-Legers, Carabiniers, Dragons, Cuirassiers, there are also many plates depicting details of insignia, flags and other uniform detail, right down to horse equipment.
