[INTRODUCTION]
I
Every Frenchman is liable to military service during twenty-five years of his life—viz., from the age of twenty until he is forty-five.[1]
In time of peace this period of service is thus divided:
(i) Three years of active service.
(ii) Ten years in the reserve of the standing army, during which two periods of a month each with the colours must be undergone.
(iii) Six years in the territorial army, with two periods of thirteen days each with the colours, and
(iv) Six years in the reserve of the territorial army.
The conscription lists are thus made out: