one for HELION
commissioned to write 'French Light Infantry 1784-1815 : From the Chasseurs of Louis XVI to Napoleon’s Grande Armée'.
This illustrated book will be published by Helion’s series 'From Reason to Revolution 1721-1815'.

one for OSPREY
New Napoleonic Osprey Men-at-Arms book in production!

Their brandy was the life blood of French soldiers in battle, and their tents and wagons the social hub of a regiment in the field – the cantineers were a vital component of Napoleon’s Grand Army.

Based on primary source material, 'Napoleon’s Women Camp Followers' provides an authentic and detailed portrait into the world of the cantineer, and an insight to their origins and influence on later armies.

Written by Terry Crowdy, this new title will be illustrated by Christa Hook.

including a plate will be inspired by this scene, the punishment-walk of shame of a fence cantinière after Marengo, Italy late june 1800 near the Pô as described by the captain Coignet
actually she was also shaved contrary contrary to Delahaye's picture

having bought stolen silverwar from a castle and recognized by the lord of the manor, the Colonel of the regiment (and not the General Bonaparte, title given to the picture) ordered to her a defilé in front of the regiment escorted by 8 soldiers, she was also shaved (Delahaye the artist forgets that here)

shame, emotion, tiredness produced on this unfortunate woman a more disastrous effect. She flooded all the back of her donkey.

The soldiers, who certainly did not fear the smell of the powder, declared that they could not suffer that one. They refused to continue their service and, to get rid of, they pushed the donkey and the woman in the Pô for a bath of a few minutes. The poor cantinière was expelled from the regiment. Her misfortune excited the regrets of the very one who came to complain about her. Before returning to his castle he gave her a purse full of money