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1,500 " -- ---- 45,500 " [Footnote 29: One bridge-equipage is required for each _corps d'armee_.] If we add to these the staff, and the several officers and employes of the administrative departments, we have an army of nearly fifty thousand men.
This, it will be remembered, is the organization of an army in the field; in the entire military organization of a state, the number of staff officers will be still higher.
In 1788, France, with a military organization for about three hundred and twenty thousand men, had eighteen marshals, two hundred and twenty-five lieutenant-generals, five hundred and thirty-eight _marechaux-de-camp_, and four hundred and eighty-three brigadiers.

A similar organization of the general staff was maintained by Napoleon.

At present the general staff of the French army consists of nine marshals, (twelve in time of war;) eighty lieutenant-generals in active service, fifty-two in reserve, and sixty two _en retraite_--one hundred and ninety-four in all; one hundred and sixty _marechaux-de-camp_ in active service, eighty-six in reserve, and one hundred and ninety _en retraite_--four hundred and thirty-six in all.