Mouillard, Lucien/Cristini, Lucien S. (Hrsg.) The French army of Louis XV 1740-1763

Lucien Mouillard's masterpiece from 1882, Les Régiments sous Louis XV. Constitution de tous les corps de troupe à la solde de la France pendant les guerres de Succession, de lEmpire et de Sept Ans (The Regiments under Louis XV. Constitution of all corps of troops in the pay of France during the Wars of Succession, the Empire and the Seven Years), is the fundamental work for understanding the organisation, flags and uniforms of the French army under Louis XV. but remained inaccessible to non-French-speaking scholars for almost a century and a half. The first English edition therefore provides military historians, uniformologists and wargamers alike with an important reference work that was previously only available in rare original copies and second-hand summaries. Mouillard's study systematically reconstructs every corps that served France during the War of the Austrian Succession, the Seven Years' War and related conflicts, including the infantry, artillery, militia, French and foreign cavalry, and the Maison du Roi. The work is divided into four parts: general organisational principles, infantry, artillery and militias, French and foreign cavalry, and finally the royal household troops, creating a coherent framework for a notoriously complex subject.