Chevalier de Folard
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The Chevalier de Folard, 13 February 1669 to 23 March 1752, was a professional soldier from Avignon in southern France. A military theorist, he championed the use of infantry columns, rather than the prevailing preference for linear formations. Although his ideas were generally dismissed by contemporaries and he died in obscurity, they remained influential in the long-running debate on tactics that followed.[1]