"french or allied imperial foot artillery with epaulettes?" Topic

Hello,

I have received some very fine looking miniatures of french foot artillery for the middle period (1806-1812). The problem is: They have been sculpted with epaulettes. Isnīt this a mistake?

All the sources I can find, depict the foot artillery with simple shoulder straps for that period. Anybody can help?

In case the figures are simply wrong for french, anybody knows about may be some allied foot artillerymen who wore epaulettes?

According to "Napoleon's Army 1790 – 1815' by Lucien Rousselot "the regulation shoulder straps seem to have been replaced in some cases with red fringed epaulettes". He is referring to the pre-1812 regulation uniforms and apparently bases the information on a contemporary drawing.

Thanks!
Any other minor army who may have used them? (I would prefer to use this miniatures for some minor state, as I am already painting french for 1813-15 in the Bardin regulation).

In 'Uniforms of the Retreat from Moscow', Haythornthwaite says the Duchy of Warsaw foot artillery wore fringed epaulettes. I think they normally wore the kurtka but Haythornthwaite says they also wore the earlier French, open-lapelled habit.