"Question about french formations at borodino" Topic

So the old line vs column debate came up on another forum.

This has been up many times here and i don't want to restart one.

So i have a very spesific question.
On the other forum it was claimed that the french fought the entire battle of brodino in columns never using lines.

Fot it sounds unrealistic.

But i have only one book dealing speificaly with borodino that of Mikaberidze, i don't remember if mentioned this or debunks it ect, and the book lost in my moving junk.

So aby sources that claim or debunk this statement would.
also what is the original source/book for this claim?

I believe there was a mix but the column of divisions was the preferred formation for manoeuvre. There is one account I remember from the French which if I remember correctly goes 'We gave them a regimental volley at 50 paces and passed on over the wreckage'. You cannot do a 'regimental volley' in a column so there must have been some flexibility.

Chandler's Napoleon book (forgot the title) had a diagram of a division assault against the Great Redoubt. The 8 battalion unit was in mixed order, with two lines in the center and three columns on each flank.

One example from Borodino. This is a typical formation used by Ney:

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Not true at all, for either side.