Livret Militaire Jeanne

I'm furiously working on "Shadowless" and got the idea to centralise all data on the characters in the form of ID cards, which not olny can serve as quick reference, but look nifty as well.

Even though I researched what the actual French military IDs looked like at the turn of the century, I didn't like the design too much, so in the end I made my own (this is the bit where having an alternate universe helps ) based on an Argentine Army ID from 1911. The French originals were a lot more rudimentary and had neither picture or fingerprint and lacked a lot of basic information civil IDs from the era had O_0.

The stamps are based on Second Empire era stamps and the main one is a slightly modified "Gouvernement General de L'Algerie" stamp from 1865. It makes little sense to have a "state central government" (itself a nonsensical phrase) stamp on a military ID, but then again, in the Shadowless universe the Second Empire survived to the turn of the century - who knows what government changes they introduced to make it this far...

The state arms are a combination of the Bourbon Restoration (three fleur-de-lys), Second Empire (Bonapartist eagle) and Republican (necklace of the Legion D'Honneur and crossed branches) but unfortunately it's much too small to be properly seen. I might post it separately.

The writing is a free font based on the handwriting of author Jane Austen which comes from here: [link]

The third and final of the first run of IDs, belonging to the main character of the graphic novel, Jeanne Deschamps. Since the story is about her and she's a Joan-of-Arc expy I'm not going to say too much about this character. The other two in this series are here:[link] and here: [link]

I am however going to add a few things - there is a double stamp on the top of the ID because the picture has been changed to keep up with the apparition of her facial tattoo, which is also why she is depicted wearing a later model uniform than her platoon mates.
The extra cyan stamp (a genuine French Second Empire stamp from the 1860s) is the mark of rank advancement from sergeant to chief. She also doesn't have a "matricule de recrutement", because, as a girl, she was never taken into the evidence of the French Army until she volunteered.