Gustave Le Gray (1820-1884) Memories of the Châlons camp to General Manèque, 1857. Personal album of Brigadier General Aimé Manèque. Napoleon III. General Auguste Regnaud de Saint-Jean d'Angély. Colonel Charles-François Waubert de Genlis. Brigadier General Aimé Manèque. General Claude Théodore Decaen. The Emperor and his staff in front of the imperial pavilion. The October 4th mass. General Fleury, Colonel Lepic, Lieutenant de vaisseau de Champagny, Captain Friant in front of the imperial pavilion. The Imperial Guard artillery. The Zouaves of the Imperial Guard: the instructions. The Zouaves' meal. Zouaves improvise an Arab feast, reproduction of a painting by Bénédict Masson. The Cent-Gardes. Maneuvers on October 3, 1857. Zouaves of the Imperial Guard: the Narrative. Cavalry maneuvers. Troop maneuvers. Visiting the Châlons camp. The sapeurs' music and the voltigeurs of the Imperial Guard. Maneuvers: the road ahead. Bivouac fires, reproduction of a painting by Bénédict Masson. Camp scene. The Zouaves of the Imperial Guard. The Zouaves' toilet. The Emperor's table. Bivouac on the Suippe, Imperial quarter. The Imperial Guard artillery quarter. Zouaves of the Imperial Guard. Maneuvers and civilians. Maneuvers: Imperial Guard cavalry. Maneuvers: Imperial Guard artillery and mounted chasseurs. Maneuvers: Imperial Guard cavalry. Oblong half-maroquin green album, titled, dated and dedicated to General Manèque in gilt letters with the imperial monogram on the front cover, composed of 33 albumen prints from collodion glass negatives, mounted on cardboard. Signature stamp "Gustave Le Gray" in red ink (26) and inked dry stamp "Gustave - Legray" (4) on the prints. Binant label at the beginning of the album. Proof sizes: 13.3 x 18 cm (4); 15.3 x 33 cm (2); then from 25 x 33 to 30 x 38 cm Album format: 54.5 x 67 cm Bibliography : - Florence Le Corre et alii, Une visite au camp de Châlons sous le Second Empire. Photographs by Messieurs Le Gray, Prévot... Paris, Musée de l'Armée, 1996. - Sylvie Aubenas (ed.), Gustave Le Gray 1820-1884, Paris, BnF / Gallimard, 2002, pp. 135-140 and pp. 368-370.