a bodily rhetoric of honour

de montgommery, la milice française, edition 1639:

"the signs of those most suited to this profession are a lively, alert manner, an erect head, a taut stomach, broad shoulders, long arms, strong fingers, a small belly, thick thighs, slender legs and dry feet, because a man of such a figure could not fail to be agile and strong"

[cf. foucault, discipline and punish]