Historique du 84e Ligne in 1815

You are not kidding! Thank you showing me that function on the website! More hours of research await.

Eric,

This is his website http://frederic.berjaud.free.fr/plan_du_site.htm. I contacted him a fews ago and I have been able to help with a few officers service records for different regiments. He is a very friendly and shared with me these reviews, but I am unsure what he has free to view for the public. However, he has been recently working on General Grenier's papers and adding to each regiment on his website. He is very responsive and always very helpful with my not so great google translator French. However, I don't want to take credit for his hard work in the Strasbourg Archives and I am very much in his debt!

Hello Eric,

Frederic Berjaud kindly sent me inspection reviews by General Schauenburg from the Strasbourg Archives in 1806 and 1807, and I have a very hard time with his handwriting as well as some scanned documents are too light and make the ink hard to read. However, there is countless documents that once translated, will give English readers hopefully a better understanding into individual regiments.

Ordres by General Schaunenburg for the Batallion des Deserteurs Francais. Slighlty more challenging to read, but with time and effort, it wil get done!

Eric Chazottes,

Scanned docs can be challenging to read, but I find using paint and making the two pages into a single page allows the documents to become larger and easier to read. I read many contoles de troupes and the 3e Ligne has one of the worst handwriting, which makes deciphering the information harder. Still, the more I learn the author's particular writing style, the easier time I have working through the controles.

I am not sure if you saw my translation of the 2nd Division 3e Corps Artillery citations from April 1809. The handwriting is very well done.

However, the XB files can be a mess at times. I find it depends if it is an official document or a quickly written document that is later rewritten. When we look at the promotions of the 23 April 1809, most regiments have a sort of rough draft document and then a neater and easier to read document that is signed as a certified copy.

Looking at the leaders of the individual regiments, we find Colonel Charrier of the 57e Ligne has some of the best handwriting I have seen. His handwriting is very similar to my own, so this could make it easier to read.

Colonel De Blanmont of the 105e Ligne also has easy to read handwriting.

However, Colonel Berthezene's of the 10e Legere handwriting is challenging as least for me.

i will try to enlarge them later today. What is amazing is the fact what I have in XB files are not even the full amount of paper work for each year. I only have the 7e Legere 1811 and 17e Lifne 1807-1809 full documents thanks to the generous help of Paul Lindsay Dawson. The huge amount of information contained in each year is daunting for a non-native French speaker like myself. However, the small details really bring to life the internal structure of each regiment.