According to Chartrand there were three styles of drumming in the French army - French, German and Swiss though the differences have been lost to time.
JGBaroque says
This is an arrangement I made of the French fife and drum command "L'Assemblée from the French drummer's manual of 1754, which was used to signal the troops to assemble before a march.
The image shows the battle of Fontenoy of the War of Austrian Succession, 1745, with the British and French troops saluting each other before firing, as painted by Édouard Detaille
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