The French Army, 1750-1820
Book • 2002
Rafe Blaufarb's 'The French Army, 1750-1820' examines institutional, social, and political changes in the French military through the revolutionary and Napoleonic periods.
The book traces how mass conscription, warfare pressures, and social upheaval reshaped officer recruitment, promotion, and the army's role in society.
Blaufarb places military reforms in broader contexts of class, politics, and state-building, showing how meritocratic impulses interacted with lingering aristocratic influences.
The work provides detailed archival research and analysis of military structures during a formative era for modern armed forces.
It is used here to support claims about promotion on merit during revolutionary France.
The book traces how mass conscription, warfare pressures, and social upheaval reshaped officer recruitment, promotion, and the army's role in society.
Blaufarb places military reforms in broader contexts of class, politics, and state-building, showing how meritocratic impulses interacted with lingering aristocratic influences.
The work provides detailed archival research and analysis of military structures during a formative era for modern armed forces.
It is used here to support claims about promotion on merit during revolutionary France.
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