Hello, I have a question regarding the prisoners of war during the Napoleonic Wars. I have read somewhere that the french prisoners got a monthly amount of money while in detention. For example, in the Banat region (now belonging to Romania, where I live), a french general received 94 fl./month. Is this information confirmed by any sources? Not necessarily the amount of money, but the fact that they were paid.
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Yes POWs should have been paid, I have read a memoire of an Saxon officer captured with his command at Kobryn - and they got payment from the Russians while being in capture, I have to check on a Prussian memoire as well, in case I remember correctly, after being captured in 1806 - they got payment in France.
Now of course - we don't know how strict this was applied - and if all POWs got payment in captivity, but the possibility was there.
In case you want to read about the Saxons in Russia 1812
Titze, Jörg (Herausgeber, Editor)
Carl August Becker, Tagebuch 28.03.1812 - 21.09.1812
books on demand, Norderstedt 2019