Table of Contents

Contents
Acknowledgments
Introduction
1. An Uncertain Existence: Vivandières in the Royal Army
2. "Absolutely Necessary": Vivandières in the Armies of the French Revolution
3. Expanded Opportunities: Cantinières in the Armies of Napoleon
4. "Useful and Necessary": Cantinières and the Constitutional Monarchies
5. The Second Empire: The "Golden Age" of the Cantinières
6. The Third Republic and the End of the Cantinières
Conclusion
Notes
Bibliography
Index

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About the Author

Thomas Cardoza is Professor of Humanities at Truckee Meadows Community College in Reno, Nevada.

Reviews

"A richly detailed account, well written and continually engaging from start to finish." Margaret Darrow, Dartmouth College "This is an excellent, pioneering, and always interesting study of an area of French military history that has now found its historian." Alan Forrest, University of York