DownloadThe Portobello Bookshop Gift Guide 2024

Carabiniers 1679-1871

Olivier Lapray author Andre Jouineau author

Format:Paperback

Publisher:Histoire & Collections

Published:31st Jul '13

Currently unavailable, our supplier has not provided us a restock date

Carabiniers 1679-1871 cover

This book traces the glorious history of the elite French cavalry. Through 61 plates of highly detailed uniform illustrations, André Jouineau guides the reader from the first company of carabiniers established within in each regiment—those superior marksmen equipped with a rifle, the gauge of precision par excellence—sought after by Louis XIV in 1690, to the fiery carabiniers of Napoleon III’s Imperial Guard who disappeared in defeat in 1870. The authors’ primary emphasis, however, is given to the First Empire.

ISBN: 9782352502746

Dimensions: unknown

Weight: unknown

80 pages