Alfred de Marbot (1812 - 1865)

Alfred de Marbot

Alfred de Marbot, full name Baron Alfred-Charles-Adolphe de Marbot, was a French writer, historian and illustrator, a specialist in military uniforms.

He was born into the family of Lieutenant General Baron Marcelin Marbot (1782-1854). As a historian of the post-Napoleonic era, Marbot did extensive research and illustrated many types of infantry and cavalry uniforms, uniforms of the National Guard, volunteer and allied French Legions.

From 1836 to 1860, together with Baron Dunoyer de Noirmont (1816-1896), Alfred de Marbot published in Paris a series of "French military costumes from the organization of the first regular troops in 1439 to the present day", and in 1854 published the work "Synoptic tables of French infantry and cavalry and foreign regiments in the service of France from 1720 to 1789".