Maison militaire du roi de France

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The house troops of the King of France ( French Maison militaire du roi de France ) were the guards of the Ancien Régime .

The royal house troops comprised very different troop bodies: the spectrum ranged from small, purely ceremonial pomp gardens to battle-tested field regiments of infantry and cavalry . Unlike the rationally planned Garde impériale the Napoleonic Wars the house troops had gained over centuries entity that by no means all weapons classes a corresponding elite unit had. They ranked outside the regular lists of the line troops .

Outline and ranking

Palace Guards

Gardes de la Manche in gala

Garden outside the palace

Other Garden ("assimilated")

House troops of the princes

Gardes du corps de Monsieur (bodyguard of the king's next younger brother)
Gardes suisses de Monsieur (Swiss Guard of the king's next younger brother)
Gardes de la porte de Monsieur (door guard of the king's next younger brother)
Gardes du corps de Monsieur le comte d'Artois (Garden of the Count of Artois )
Compagnie des Suisses de Monsieur le comte d'Artois (Swiss Guard of the Count of Artois)
Gardes de la porte de comte d'Artois (Door Guard of the Count of Artois)

See also

literature

  • Abbé Jean-Joseph Expilly (Ed.): Dictionnaire géographique, historique et politique des Gaules et de la France , Volume 3 (F – K), Paris etc. 1764 (section "Forces de la France", p. 222ff.)
  • Liliane Funcken , Fred Funcken : Historical uniforms. Volume 1: 18th century. French Guard and Infantry, British and Prussian Infantry. Mosaik-Verlag, Munich 1977, ISBN 3-570-04361-4 .
  • Liliane Funcken, Fred Funcken: Historical uniforms. Volume 5: 19th century. 1814-1850. France, Great Britain, Prussia. Infantry, cavalry, technical troops and artillery. Mosaik-Verlag, Munich 1982, ISBN 3-570-14961-7 .
  • Philip Haythornthwaite: Uniforms and Battles. 1815-1850. Heyne, Munich 1976, ISBN 3-453-81028-7 .
  • Richard Knötel , Herbert Sieg: Colored Manual of Uniform Studies. The development of the military costume until 1937. Volume 2: The European and non-European countries with the exception of the armed forces of the German states, Austria-Hungary and Switzerland dealt with in volume 1. New edition. Spemann, Stuttgart 1994.
  • Charles Pierre Victor Pajol: Les guerres sous Louis XV . tape 7 . Didot, Paris 1887 ( online at archive.org ).