Jacques (Jack) Girbal, who is rather unknown outside of France and even forgotten to a degree in his home country, illustrated the first 75 plates of the series “Soldats et Uniformes du Premier Empire” created by the French cardiologist and historian Dr. F.G. Hourtoulle in the 1960’s.
Girbal also produced illustrations for Hourtoulle’s book on Lasalle and illustrated with lithographs a marvelous luxury book "2 Decembre 1805" with text by Henri Lachouque on Austerlitz.