Servan’s book proposed universal conscription before the French Revolution

Evidence

Joseph Servan, Le Soldat Citoyen (1780), p. 35; quoted in Foucault, Discipline and Punish, pp. 102–3. Servan was minister of war in 1792 with strongly anti-royalist feelings. What won him notoriety, though, more than his republican tendencies, was this book in which he foreshadowed the French Revolution by asking for universal conscription. — Khaled Fahmy, All the Pasha_s Men_ Mehmed Ali, his…, 800