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Chasseur

This article is about the French military unit. For other uses, see Chasseur (disambiguation).
Chasseurs à pied bugler, illustration by Édouard Detaille in L'Armee Française (1885)
The Charging Chasseur by Théodore Géricault, depicting an officer of the Chasseurs à Cheval de la Garde Impériale
The Chasseur in the Forest by Caspar David Friedrich
Chasseur d'Afrique in 1914

Chasseur (/ʃæˈsɜːr/ shass-UR, French: [ʃasœʁ]), a French term for "hunter", is the designation given to certain regiments of French and Belgian light infantry (chasseurs à pied) or light cavalry (chasseurs à cheval) to denote troops trained for rapid action.


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