Key to Color illustration:

4, 7 and 8 after Rene North
1, 2, 3, 6 and 9 After Malibran

1. Officer's Coat (epaulettes removed for clarity), note piping edge to collar, cuff flaps and lapels.

2. Grenadier's sabre-briquet /cartouche box strap arrangement (knot removed forclarity). Note the plain cartouche box - there is no evidence of a grenade ornament on the flap.

3. Sabre-briquet hilt with grenadier sword knot.

4. Fusilier, 3rd Company (see text), Summer Full Dress.

5. Detail of Grenadier turnback ornament.

6. Fusilier cartouche box arrangement.

7. Grenadier, Winter Full Dress.

8. Fusilier Drummer (see text).

9. Detail of cuff arrangement with caporal's rank stripe.

10. Grenadier's Bonnet de Police. Fusiliers would omit the Grenadier's grenade. Officers replaced all white piping with gold.

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