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The 1er through 101e and 105e through 110e Ligne were old Royal Regiments, and despite absorbing new recruits remained true to this heritage, and did the 1er through 12e Legere, 1er and 2eme Carabiniers, 1er through 13e Chasseurs a Cheval, 1er through 12e Cuirassiers, 1er through 18e and 22e through 27e Dragons, and 1er through 8e Hussards. All these regiments retained their identity for the entire duration (although several light horse regiments were converted to Lanciers, they took their traditions with them).
102e through 104e and 111e through 118e Ligne were new regiments, 119e and 120e Ligne were skipped and not formed until 1808, 121e through 150e were transient regiments formed in the 1794 levy, but none were still in existence a little over a year later, they were budded off, in effect, from old Royal Regiments, and were reamalgamated back into them. So were the new regiments (102-104, 111-118) and indeed some of the old Royal Regiments. After the collapse of the levy they collapsed a lot of these newer budded off regiments back into their parent regiment.
Finally 151e through 156e were formed from the National Guard during the crises of 1813.
The 13e and 14e Legere were formed from National Guard units in 1791. The 15e through 30e Legere were newly raised in 73-5 by the Levy, and were kept. 31e through 35e Legere were raised from conquered territories during the Imperial period, 36e Legere was a partially trained new Ligne Regiment converted during the crisis of 1812, and 37e Legere was the scrappings from the depots thrown together in 1813.
14e-25e Chasseurs a Cheval were formed from volunteer units, and most of them had a rather short life, 26e-28e were taken into French service from conquered territorials, 29e and 31e were formed from provisional regiments (formed from the depots) and 30e were converted to Lanciers while forming.
The 13e Currassiers were another provisional unit, while the 14e were taken from the Dutch Army.
19e and 20e Dragons were formed from volunteers, 21e were converted from a police unit, 28e were split from the 2/7e Hussards (a volunteer unit), 29e and 30e were conversions of the 11e and 12e Hussards.
9e and 10e Hussards were volunteers, 11e - 13e were formed by detachments from other royal regiments ca 94 (and 12e absorbed much of the Dutch light horse), the 14e was a short live 1811 Italian unit.
1er - 6e and 93 Lancier regiments were conversions from Dragoons, 7e and 8e were Polish.