Yale Center for British Art

Creator:
France. Sovereign (1830-1848 : Louis-Philippe)
Title:
Ordonnance du roi du 4 Mars 1831 : sur l'exercise et les manœuvres de l'infanterie.
Published / Created:
Paris : Imprimerie Royale, 1831.
Physical Description:
xxxviii, 432 p. ; 37 cm. + 1 atlas (107 p., 64 folded leaves of plates : ill., music ; 37 cm.)
Holdings:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
UD228 .O73 1831+ Oversize
Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

Copyright Status:
Copyright Not Evaluated
Classification:
Books
Notes:
Military costume and drill book. Revision of the Napoleonic ordonnances for infantry and cavalry, published under Louis Philippe.

At head of title: Ministère de la guerre.

Published for use of the Ministère de la guerre (never for sale).

Title of atlas: Planches relatives a l'ordonnance du roi du 4 Mars 1831 : sur l'exercise et les manoeuvres de l'infanterie.

The atlas includes 64 folded leaves of plates and "Batteries et sonneries" ([9] p. at end).

BAC: British Art Center copy bound in contemporary quarter calf and marbled boards. Bookplate: Bibliothèque du Bon. de Marbot. (Marbot was military tutor and aide-de-campe to Louis Philippe.)
Subject Terms:
France. Armée. Infanterie -- Drill and tactics. | France -- History -- 1830–1848. | Costume -- France. | MIlitary law -- France. | France -- History, Military -- 19th century. | Marbot, Jean-Baptiste-Antoine-Marcelin, baron de, 1782–1854 -- Bookplate.
Form/Genre:
Lithographs -- 1831. | Armorial Bookplates (Provenance)
Contributors:
France. Laws, statutes, etc. | France. Ministère de la guerre.