The Levée en masse introduced the concept on universal conscription as was used in Napoleonic times so you could say it was the same thing. But the Levée en masse was an emergency decree that called in all unmarried men of age 18-25 which meant a huge boost in numbers and such a boost did not happen afterwards.

The army that invaded Russia was IIRC something like 500-600,000 men but only about a third was ethnic French. The rest were either from non-french parts of the Empire or from allied states. of course there were lots of French troops in Spain and at home so overall France still had many men under arms.

For other nations. I think Austria had some limited conscription but never went the whole way to universal conscription. Prussia did introduce it in 1813. Russia had basically been conscripting their poor serfs for ages but can't remember if they changed service time.


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