Musée d'Infanterie- Montpellier- chasseurs à pied 1845

One of the best museums illustrating the French Infantry is the "Musée de l'Infanterie" in Montpellier. They have recently put detailed pictures of their display rooms on-line.

For the period we are mostly interested in, here is the link for the infantry:

http://www.musee-infanterie.com/beta/vitrine/48-vitrine-n-23-bis

For the Chasseurs à pied:

http://www.musee-infanterie.com/beta/vitrine/46-vitrine-n-21

Some of the uniforms and/or pieces of equipment are copies, made in 1930, notably the ones shown in this post, which represent the uniforms worn by the 8th battallion chasseurs d'Orléans at Sidi-Brahim, where many of them were massacred by the Algerian tribesmen led by Abd-El-Kader.