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A woman camp-follower shields a wounded soldier on a battle field from the reprimands of his senior officer. Lithograph by Joseph Louis-Hippolyte Bellangé, 1824. Wellcome Collection. Public Domain Mark. Source: Wellcome Collection.
Depiction of the subject of the song "La vivandière" by Pierre-Jean de Béranger (1817), with quotation of the sixth of the nine verses. The vivandière was a woman camp-follower who travelled wih an army supplying it with food and drink. In the song, a woman called Cantin narrates her expolits with the French army in the Napoleonic wars, in the Alps, Vienna, Rome, etc.. "Pantin" was a slang word for Paris
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