1851 and 1853 under the title Aux vieux de la vieille. The first print run of 500 copies was sold directly by Coignet to his customers. Coignet's memoirs however, were written in rough French, as he had not learned to read and write until late in life. Years after his death in 1865, in 1883, the writer Loredan Larchey, by revising and rewriting Coignet's memoirs, published broad extracts of Aux vieux de la vieille under the title The Notebooks of the Captain Coignet, which met with immediate success. The Notebooks from then on were constantly republished, but the first integral edition was published only in 1968 by the writer Jean Mistler, who adds an important foreword. TV miniseries Coignet was the subject of a French TV miniseries, Jean-Roch Coignet, which was written by Albert Vidalie and directed by Claude-Jean Bonnardot. The French national public broadcasting agency ORTF aired seven one-hour episodes from 23 December 1969 to 3 January 1970. The cast was as follows: Henri Lambert - Jean-Roch Coignet Pierre Santini - Gervais François Dyrek - La Franchise Max Vialle - Godaille Anne Pauzé - Louison Jacques Mondain - Benoît Fabienne Mai - Mme Potier Hervé Sand - M. Potier Pascal Tersou - Palbrois Jean Payen - Le sergent écrivain References Capitaine Jean Roche Coignet, Imperial Guard La Grande Armée French military personnel of the Napoleonic Wars 1776 births 1865 deaths es:Jean-Roch Coignet#top