François Jean de Graindorge d'Orgeville, baron de Mesnil-Durand, known as François-Jean de Mesnil-Durand (1 September 1736, Mesnil-Durand - 13 thermidor year VII, i.e. 31 July 1799,

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) was a French tactician. He collaborated with marshal de Broglie and supported the '' ordre profond''.

Works

* ''Projet d'un ordre françois en tactique, ou la phalange coupée et doublée soutenue par le mélange des armes'' (1755), printed by Antoine Boudet, Paris. 1 vol. in-4° (xxix, + 446p. + 16 plates) * ''Fragments de tactique, ou six

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s,... précédé d'un Discours Préliminaire sur la Tactique et sur les Systêmes'' (1774), libr. Ch.-Ant. Ambert, Paris. 2 vol. in-4° : lxviii + 420pp., et viii p.+144pp.+12 plates.

Sources

*Louis du Bois - ''Notice sur Charles Graindorge d'Orgeville, Baron de Ménil-Durand in Almanach de la ville et de l'arrondissement de Lisieux pour 1839''. - Lisieux : Veuve Tissot,

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