Infanterie de Ligne

Line infantry regiments are composed of three battalions of which only the first two are field battalions. Field battalions are composed of one grenadier company, one voltigeur company and four fusilier companies. The reserve battalion is composed of four fusilier companies only.

Fusiliers

• Short tailed coat with closed lapels of cornflower blue (deep sky blue) cloth. Closed collar of regimental colour. Blue shoulder straps piped red. Lapels of regimental colour. Rounded cuffs with side slit piped red closed by four buttons. Red turnbacks. White or yellow buttons.
  Regiments belonging to royal household (nr.1 König and nr.2 Kronprinz) have buttons’ colour buttonhole laces on lapels and waist buttons.
  After 1814, all regiments wear the same uniform with red facings and yellow buttons and are only differentiated by the number stamped on their buttons.
• White breeches. Short black gaiters.
• Helmet with high black leather crown bearing a brass crowned oval plate stamped with royal cipher over a brass band. A small brass chain joins each chinstrap boss to two rivets on each side of the plate crown. Black wool caterpillar. On left side of the crown, between national cockade (white with blue centre) and chinstrap boss, small wool tuft of company colour (see plate). Black leather peak. Black leather chinstrap trimmed by small brass chains.
• White leatherwork. Black leather cartridge pouch. White belt with brass buckle and sabre with brass single bar hilt and black leather scabbard with brass fittings, white sabre strap. In 1810, waistbelt is replaced by a shoulderbelt.

Grenadiers
Trooper’s dress with tuft replaced by a scarlet plume. Pouch often bears a brass grenade plate. White sabre strap.
After 1808, button colour grenade patch on turnbacks.

Voltigeurs
Trooper’s dress with tuft replaced by a green plume. Pouch often bears a brass horn plate. Rifle and sabre-bayonet with steel hilt and black leather scabbard with brass fittings. Black leather powder horn with green cord and tassel.
After 1808, button colour horn patch on turnbacks.

NCOs
Trooper’s dress with rank laces on collar. Special type sabre with white metal basket hilt, silver sabre straps with blue stripes.

Officers
Troopers’ dress with long tails. Vertical pockets simulated by a red piping. Rank laces in button colour on collar. All ornaments (including buttonhole laces of 1st and 2nd regiments) are silver (silvered) or gold (gilded). Large waist sash in silver silk with blue embroideries knotted on left hip ending with tassels for senior officers, without tassels for junior officers. Black boots.
Large black fur caterpillar on helmet. Sword for fusilier and grenadier officers, curved bladed sabre for voltigeur officers.
For mounted officers, french saddle with regimental colour schabraque and holster cover (red for all after 1811) with silver or gold lace and royal cipher embroidery in rear corners.
In 1812, the silk sash is replaced by a gorget as service insignia.

Drummers and hornists
Troopers’ dress with button colour lace on collar and cuffs. Swallow nests of lapel colour with button colour lace. After 1807, royal cipher embroidery (royal arms for 1st and 2nd regiments) on swallow nests. Five or six chevrons of lace on sleeves and lace along sleeve seam. Drum hoops are painted with blue and white stripes and the horn has blue and white cord and tassels.
Most voltigeur hornists do not wear sleeve chevrons.
Grenadier drummers and voltigeur hornists are often shown with drooping plume.

Sappers
Grenadier dress with scarlet fringed epaulets and sappers’ badge (crossed axes) in scarlet cloth on sleeves. Scarlet drooping plume. Whitened leather apron.

Musicians
Before 1814, troopers’ dress with black felt cocked hat with white stiffeners, lace and cockade strap. Black boots.
After 1814, short tailed single breasted coat of cornflower blue cloth, closed by six buttons. Gold lace on collar, cuffs and front of coat.