Rouleur (soldier)
Rouleur (also billiards) is a term from the time of absolutism . It names a soldier who left the troops in order to be recruited into another army . In this way, some of these men brought about a right gathering of employers, who not infrequently went to war with one another. The recruiting officers of the major military nations such as France , Prussia or the Netherlands were even happy to make use of this reservoir, which was never empty. Prussia, in particular, is known for the fact that its military leaders sent out recruits, called debaucheurs in technical language , to induce soldiers from foreign nations to desert and recruit them again. The deserters' profit consisted in renewed hand money and in the equipment they had taken with them, mainly clothing and edged weapons . The recruitment officers' gain consisted of the rewards for recruitment by the respective warlords. As soon as the recruit signed the "surrender," the recruiter had a monetary claim.
Rouleurs was also the name of the turn stenographs in the middle of the 19th century that literally recorded the assemblies in the French National Assembly.
Individual evidence
literature
- André Corvisier, L'armée française de la fin du XVIIe siècle au ministère de Choiseul , Presses universitaires de France, 1964, volumes 14–15 of Publications de la Faculté des lettres et sciences humaines de Paris-Sorbonne: Series "Recherches"
- Sr. kk Majesty Franz des Zweyten, laws and ordinances for the Austrian, Bohemian and Galician hereditary lands , Vienna, 1816, page 140 ff. "Against false recruits and seducers" ( online preview )