Caption:
Uniform of the Elite Gendarmes, cavalry regiment in the French Imperial Guard. In bearskin cap with plume, blue coat, red lapels and cuffs, white aiguillettes and epaulettes, white trousers and black boots. Gendarme d'Elite, Garde Imperiale. Handcoloured woodcut by Nicolas Barbant after an illustration by Hippolyte Bellangé from P.M. Laurent de lArdeches Histoire de Napoleon, Paris, 1840.