Maison militaire du roi de France
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
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Garde du corps du roi (bodyguard) with
- Gardes écossais ( Scottish Guard ) and
- Gardes de la Manche (Sleeve Guard as part of the Gardes écossais)
- Cent-suisses ( hundred Swiss )
- Gardes de la porte (Door Guard)
- Gardes de la prévôté (Garden des Schlossprofoses)
Garden outside the palace
- Gendarmes de la garde (Gendarmes of the Guard)
- Mousquetaires de la garde (Musketeers of the Guard)
- Chevau-léger de la garde du roi ( Chevaulegers of the King's Guard)
- Grenadiers à cheval ( Grenadiers on horseback )
Other Garden ("assimilated")
- Gardes françaises (French Garden)
- Gardes suisses (Swiss Guard )
- Gendarmerie de France ( Gendarmerie of France)
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 ).