"French Cavalry Cloaks 1805-11" Topic

I'm looking for the colors of the cloaks (manteaus) for Dragoons and for Guard Lancers (Dutch preferably).

I've see white, I've seen light blue, dark blue, gray and dark green.

Would officers wear different colors than the troopers?

Hussar officers had decorative trim I see in at least one illustration. Same for Dragoons or Guard Lancers?

From Tradition Magazine No 64 which has a large article by Michel Petard on the Red Lancers clothing:

"Le Manteau
Du type <<manteau capote>>, car muni de manches, ce vetement tres aprecie du cavalier comme du fantassin est taille dans un drap bleu celeste et garni d'une large rotonde. Le collet est drap eclarte. Les boutons sont, comme a l'accoutumee, de bois recouvert d'etoffe. Dans la Jeune Garde, le manteau est drap ecru et collet rouge."

See Rousselot planche:

From Figurines Magazine No 52 – excellent article by Michel Petard on the Empress Dragoons:

"Manteau
Il est drap blanc, pique de bleu avec rotonde. Le collet est en drap vert. L'interieur des devants du manteau et de la fente posterieure et paremente de cadis rouge.

C'est a partir de 1813 qu'apparait un manteau capote muni des manches avec une rotonde plus longue ornee, de chaque cote, de trois brandebourgs a houpe en laine aurore.

En faction, une <<capote en guerite>> est utilisee; c'est une capote entierement grise dont les manches ont des larges parements."

Rousselot planche:

Note the green manteau is listed by Rousselot as an officer 1807-1808

In the french army museum is one of the very rare samples of a french cavalry coat. It also had been shown in the exhibition of 1813 in the Dresden army museum.

I published two photos of the front and rear of the cloak in the uniform portal at:

link (Front)
link (Rear)

Greetings from Tenerife
Markus Stein

It is so tempting to show cuirassiers at Waterloo with the various regimental facing colours showing on the folded cloaks on top of the partmateaux. But alas, by 1815, they were no more. What Markus shows us seems fairly universal by then.