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    The maison militaire du roi de France, in English the military household of the king of France, was the military part of the French royal household or...
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    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 France. The...
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    King of France (Mousquetaires de la maison militaire du roi de France), also known as the Musketeers of the Guard (French: Mousquetaires de la garde)...
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    constituent part of the maison militaire du roi de France ("military household of the king of France") under the Ancien Régime. The French Guards, who were located...
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    The Maison du Roi (French pronunciation: [mɛzɔ̃ dy ʁwa], 'King's Household') was the royal household of the King of France. It comprised the military,...
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    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 Royal...
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    Cent-Suisses (category 1470s establishments in France)
    infantrymen. Louis de Menthon was appointed the first commander of the Cent-Suisses in 1496. The unit was part of the Maison militaire du roi de France (military...
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    Life guard (military) (category Articles containing French-language text)
    during World War 2 Kingdom of France: French Life Guards – part of the Maison Militaire du Roi de France of the French Royal Army Imperial Russia: Imperial...
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    was head of the court police and had jurisdiction over the Maison Militaire du Roi de France under Louis XV. He was a lieutenant general of the king's...
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  • The Vieux Corps and the king's own household troops (the Maison militaire du roi de France) were the only survivors. The Black Army, established in 1462...
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    des Vaisseaux - one of the regiments of the Maison militaire du roi de France (Royal Military House of France) created to serve on boats and in the colonies:...
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    addition to the regiments of the line the Maison du Roi provided several elite units, the Swiss Guards, French Guards and the Regiments of Musketeers being...
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    file of the Gardes Françaises: the largest regiment of the maison militaire du roi de France and the permanent garrison of Paris, refused to obey their...
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  • Quiret de Margency also Adrien Cuyret de Margency (1727 – c. 1802) was an 18th-century French officer of the Maison militaire du roi de France (Gentilhomme...
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    before 1918, see Russian Empire. Maison militaire du roi de France Garde du Corps Garde Écossaise Mousquetaires de la Garde Imperial Guard (Napoleon...
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    years of the French Revolution, but closed for good in March 1793, with its empty buildings being taken over by the École spéciale militaire de Saint-Cyr...
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    known as Louis the Great (Louis le Grand) or the Sun King (le Roi Soleil), was King of France from 1643 until his death in 1715. His verified reign of 72...
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    Gendarme (historical) (category Military history of France)
    the Maison militaire du roi de France, had two units of gendarmes: the Gendarmes de la garde (Guard Gendarmes), created in 1609 and the Gendarmes de France...
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    Bibliothèque nationale de France (French: [biblijɔtɛk nɑsjɔnal də fʁɑ̃s]; 'National Library of France'; BnF) is the national library of France, located in Paris...
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    rue Saint-Antoine et du roi de Sicile), en la rue Chapon (aboutissant rue du Temple) et en Champ-Flory (rue Champ-Fleury, près du Louvre). Si les femmes...
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    captain or colonel retiré du service, according to Chenaye-Desbois. He was also a knight of the ordre royal et militaire de Saint-Louis. He tried in vain...
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    portefeuilles du comte de Mailly, mestre de camp de cavalerie dans cette année et depuis maréchal de France. Lettre de M. le maréchal de Mailly au roi, sur l'administration...
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    following years, and finally "Royal counsellor" (« conseiller du Roi, maison et couronne de France » 7 April 1573). In Paris, on 9 April 1551, he married Anne...
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  • Roy (category Pages with French IPA)
    cavalerie, la maison du roi et rartillerie ; elle a eu deux chevaliers de l'ordre du Roi et plusieurs chevaliers de l'ordre royal et militaire de Saint-Louis...
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  • Leroy (name) (category Pages with French IPA)
    cavalerie, la maison du roi et rartillerie ; elle a eu deux chevaliers de l'ordre du Roi et plusieurs chevaliers de l'ordre royal et militaire de Saint-Louis...
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  • Midshipman (category CS1 German-language sources (de))
    the Gardes de la Marine. The concept of the Gardes was borrowed from the various guards units within the Maison militaire du roi de France. In 1686 these...
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    ascendante jusqu'au quatrieme degre inclusivement de tous les Rois et Princes de maisons souveraines de l'Europe actuellement vivans [Genealogy up to the...
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    Prosper Baccuet (category 19th-century French painters)
    into the Grenadiers on Horseback guard, who were part of the Maison militaire du roi de France. He became a full Lieutenant in 1827. That guard was dissolved...
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    Vigny enrolled in one of the privileged aristocratic companies of the Maison du Roi (king's guard) as a second lieutenant. Though he was promoted to first...
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    Besenval, accusé [accusé du crime de lèse-nation], contre M. Le Procureur du Roi au Châtelet, accusateur, chez Prault, Imprimeur du Roi, Quai des Augustins...
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