Guy Dempsey in his post of Friday, 20 June 2008, 11:48 pm (Re: A French Formation description Art?) Stated:

To assist with your analysis, you will probaly want to have the original French text for the quote from General Maransin found in my Albuera book:

"Arrivé au point d'attaque, le 5me corps change de direction par un mouvement de tete de colonne à droite; la Division Girard marche à l'ennemi en colonnes d'attaque. La 2me Division derierre, é 150 pas de distance, en colonnes d'attaque par bataillon."

For the thread containing this post see:

http://www.napoleon-series.org/cgi-bin/forum/archives_config.pl?read=91732

The quote citation is

Page 82 of

Cambon, Jean. Jean-Pierre Maransin. Général de Division, baron d'Empire (1770-1828). Tarbes: Société académique des Hautes-Pyrénées, 1991.

It be nice to know M. Cambon’s source for said quote. Guy states, in the same thread:

The French text of the quote about the formations used by the 5th Corps which I provided [SHS: see above] comes directly from the original memoir, which I obtained from a French archive.

Steve