His plans have generally been rejected by his own countrymen, but they still have advocates among the Germans.
General Virgin, a distinguished Swedish engineer, wrote in 1781.

His idea of strongly fortifying the smaller towns to the comparative neglect of the larger cities, constitutes one of the principal novelties in his system.
In 1794, Reveroni devised a system in which the casemates of Montalembert were employed, but his guns were so arranged as to be employed in barbette while the besiegers were at a distance, and afterwards to be used for casemated fire.

The casemate gun-carriage, which formed a part of his invention, was ingenious, but never much employed in practice.
Bousmard, a French emigrant, published in 1790.

He adopted the general trace of Vauban, but introduced modifications in the details essentially different from those of Cormontaigne.

Some of these modifications are very valuable improvements, while others are of a more doubtful character.