Departure of the Conscripts

Departure of the Conscripts (French: Les conscrits de 1807 défilant devant la porte Saint-Denis) is an 1808 history painting by the French artist Louis-Léopold Boilly. Set during the ongoing Napoleonic Wars, it depicts young men of the 1807 class of conscript being assembled in front of the Porte Saint-Denis monument in the city.

It was exhibited at the Salon of 1808. Today it is in the collection of the Musée Carnavalet in Paris.

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