Jean-Marie Defrance (1771–1835) was a French General of the French Revolutionary Wars and the Napoleonic Wars. He was also a member of the Council of Five Hundred, and a teacher at the military school of Rebais, Champagne.
Jean-Marie Defrance
Mounted Carabiniers (France)
The Carabiniers-à-Cheval were mounted troops in the service of France.
Carabiniers during the Russian Campaign, by Édouard Detaille
Portrait of a Carabinier-à-cheval by Théodore Géricault (c. 1812)
Carabinier-à-Cheval cuirass holed by a cannonball at Waterloo, belonging to Antoine Fauveau (Musée de l'Armée).
Pre-revolutionary Carabinier-à-cheval (1787).