Nonsense...steverodgers801 wrote:The regular army despised the reserves and only used them because they had to.
The whole French Army was a reserve Army (but not so much the peacetime Airforce or Navy)...
In fact, there was not such a 'regular' Army in modern terms: during peacetime, 'active' units were formed with conscripts and a professional 'cadre'. Beside colonial troops(1) and those professional cadres, people forming the peacetime army were basic citizens simply doing their service time.
Once mobilization started, there was no 'active' units left... all of them recieved a good share of mobilized people.
[note: colonial troops: mostly North-African troops that might be considered somewhat as 'professional' because they were 'enlisted' for a longer period, then not really conscripts, even if legaly forced to do so up to a certain quota.]