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One of several drawings from "La Vieille Armee francaise" (1820) or "La Vie politique et militaire de Napoleon" (Paris, 1826), showing infantry uniforms or "military exploits under the First Empire, which made [Charlet's] work popular with the opposition under the Restoration and influential in the propagation of a mythic view of the Napoleonic era" (Oxford Art Online: Charlet, Nicolas-Toussaint). This illustration portrays a nostalgic view of an Infantry Colonel of the Napoleonic military campaigns. This French infantry colonel is on horseback, and wears his blue uniform coat with white facings, red cuffs, and red standing collar, and gold epaulettes and buttons. His trousers are of red, white, and blue narrow stripes. His cravat and his boots are black. He wears a black bicorne hat with a tall red, white, and blue cockade at the front. He holds his unsheathed sword upright, in his gloved hand.
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