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    A Garde du Corps (French for lifeguard) is a military unit formed of guards. A Garde du Corps was first established in France in 1445. From the 17th century...
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    The Gardes du Corps du Roi (King's bodyguard) was the senior formation of the King of France's household cavalry within the maison militaire du roi de...
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    The Gardes du Corps (Regiment der Gardes du Corps) was the personal bodyguard of the king of Prussia and, after 1871, of the German Emperor (in German...
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    monarchy. They were assimilated into the Maison du Roi and later formed the first company of the Garde du Corps du Roi (Royal Bodyguard). In 1450, King James...
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    Cavalry Division with three brigades, one regiment of Hussars and the Garde du Corps. The first Infantry division with two brigades and a regiment of Grenadier...
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    family. Traditional bodyguard duties were in fact performed by the Garde du Corps and the Cent-suisses. Because of its later establishment, the Musketeers...
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    some of its units was limited to gentlemen, like the gardes du corps and Mousquetaires de la Garde. The rank and file of other regiments, such as the French...
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    du roi, the grand appartement de la reine, and the apartment of Madame de Maintenon. The salle des gardes du roi, served to house the Garde du corps du...
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    territorial), one regiment of Uhlans, two Hussar regiments, one regiment of Garde du Corps (mounted royal bodyguard), two regiments of foot artillery and one of...
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    residences (within the royal residences, the king's guard was the Garde du corps and the Gardes suisses). The Musketeers of the Guard wore an early type of...
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    (reenactment of the Battle of Waterloo June 2011, Waterloo, Belgium) Prussian Garde du Corps cuirassier during the Franco-Prussian War. French 6th Cuirassier Regiment...
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    cavalry regiment, and a few years later transferring to the drabantkåren (Garde du Corps). Gyllenhaal, however, remained in contact with Linnaeus through an...
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    Spain itself. Maison militaire du roi de France (to which belonged the Garde du Corps, the Swiss Guards, and the French Guards), in the Kingdom of France...
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    for the security of the palace at Versailles were the aristocratic Garde du Corps (body guard) and the Cent-Suisses (hundred Swiss). Both were primarily...
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  • in 2005. The resulting biography was published in French as J'étais garde du corps d'Hitler 1940–1945 ("I was Hitler's bodyguard 1940–1945") in March 2006...
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    Prince Wilhelm of Prussia Leib Carabinier Regiment # 12, five squadrons Garde du Corps Cuirassier Regiment # 14, five squadrons Willmann Horse Artillery Battery...
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    also to a single private individual. In the Kingdom of France, the Garde du Corps was established (with reference to the sergents d'armes) in 1440. It...
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    Legislature" (Garde du corps législatif), comprising 1,200 men selected by the French Directory. A "Guard of the Directory" (Garde du Directoire) was...
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    Abitur in 1918. On 1 June 1918 he joined the Prussian Army regiment Garde du Corps and was deployed to Ukraine for a short time before the War ended in...
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  • regiment of the Royal Bavarian Army. The regiment was formed in 1814 as Garde du Corps to the King of Bavaria. The normal peacetime location of the regiment...
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    see Russian Empire. Maison militaire du roi de France Garde du Corps Garde Écossaise Mousquetaires de la Garde Imperial Guard (Napoleon I) 1st Polish...
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  • published in French as Dans l'ombre de Ben Laden: révélations de son garde du corps repenti ("In the Shadow of Bin Laden: Revelations of His Repentant Bodyguard")...
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  • disorganised plethora of bladed weapons was produced. It comes as a successor of the sabre of the elite Garde du Corps. Les Sabres de Cuirassiers. v t e v t e...
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    January 22, 2013. Retrieved March 7, 2020. "تقنيات حراسة الشخصيات garde du corps Bodyguard Algérie". YouTube. 14 July 2019. Sons of God. Macmillan Australia...
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    the Rhenish Hussars in the Prussian Army. He served in the Prussian Garde du Corps and was also Honorary Colonel of the 1st Infantry Regiment of Bulgaria...
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    Household Divisions or, as in Brandenburg, field troops as well. The Gardes du Corps were formed from the 2 companies of trabants serving Frederick William...
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    Jane Birkin (category Knights of the Ordre national du Mérite)
    2011). "Review of the film L'Animal (1977)". frenchfilms.org. "AU BOUT DU BOUT DU BANC (1979)". BFI. Archived from the original on 16 January 2021. "Melancolie...
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    his position as captain of the 2nd (and 1st French) company of the Garde du corps du roi, the royal guard. He played an important role in the assassination...
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    under Louis XV, who selected the pistol variant used in 1731 by the Garde du Corps as the basis on which future pistols would be made, this variant would...
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    the European monarchies. During this period, officers of the French Garde du Corps (the Royal Bodyguard) successfully petitioned to not be required to...
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