The Gardes du Corps du Roi (French pronunciation: [ɡaʁd dy kɔʁ dy ʁwa]) was a cavalry unit of the maison militaire du roi de France. The oldest unit in...
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Scottish Guards (France) (redirect from Garde Ecossaise)
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 II...
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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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January 2014. Abir Al Maghribi (20 December 2013). "Qui est le garde du corps du roi?". le360.ma (in French). Retrieved 24 January 2014. "Promu". Telquel...
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(1676) the Gardes de la porte, sometimes known as Gardes de la porte du roi Far from being simply a ceremonial corps, the "Maison du Roi" participated...
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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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The Conseil du Roi (French pronunciation: [kɔ̃sɛj dy ʁwa]; 'King's Council'), also known as the Royal Council, is a general term for the administrative...
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Musketeers of the Guard (redirect from Mousquetaires de la Garde)
militaire du roi de France), also known as the Musketeers of the Guard (French: Mousquetaires de la garde) or King's Musketeers (Mousquetaires du roi), were...
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Castelnau-Les-Milandes. In the royal household he was appointed as Garde du Corps du Roi and Gentilhomme de la Chambre. He married 5 June 1757 Adélaïde Luce...
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Constitutional Guard (redirect from Garde constitutionnelle du Roi)
Guard (French: Garde Constitutionnelle) was a French royal guard formation which lasted a few months in 1792 as part of the Maison du Roi, being superseded...
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Louvre Palace (redirect from Palais du louvre)
Bibliothèque du Roi to the former king's room, namely the Chambre de Parade, the Salle Henri II (antechamber) and the former Salle des Gardes (now Salle...
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et grisons. II. Les Cent-Suisses de la garde du Roi (1481-1792) devenus gardes à pied ordinaires du corps du Roi (1814-1830). p. 13. Michel Hanotaux. Fastes...
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On 20 April 1818, he was commissioned as a Lieutenant within the Garde du Corps du Roi (King's Life Guards), and was raised to the rank of Maréchal de...
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Guards (Gardes Espagnoles), an infantry regiment brigaded with the Walloon Guards but recruited within Spain itself. Maison militaire du roi de France...
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Decoration of the Lily (redirect from Decoration du Lys)
d'Artois's orders of the day, on 26 April 1814, created the Décoration du Lys for the garde nationale of Paris as "a perpetual sign of the services it has rendered...
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The petit appartement du roi (French: [pɛtit‿apaʁtmɑ̃ dy ʁwa]) of the Palace of Versailles is a suite of rooms used by Louis XIV, Louis XV, and Louis XVI...
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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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French nobility. The "Garde Écossaise", as they were later known, were to become the first company of the Garde du Corps du Roi - the personal bodyguard...
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are listed as historical monuments, including the Théâtre du Nord (formerly the Grande Garde) and the Vieille Bourse (formerly the Bourse de Commerce)...
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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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Antoine de Lhoyer (category Garde Écossaise officers)
also had a notable military career; he was an elite member of the Gardes du Corps du Roi, a Knight of the Order of St John and a Knight of the Order of St...
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Louis Gustave le Doulcet, comte de Pontécoulant (category Garde Écossaise officers)
he began a military career with the Compagnie Écossaise of the Garde du corps du Roi in 1778, becoming lieutenant colonel in 1791.[citation needed] A...
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opened May 16, 1770, with Lully's Persée. On 1 October 1789, the gardes du corps du roi held a banquet to welcome the Flanders Regiment, which had just...
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Page of H.H. Gaston d'Orléans.1 Etienne II du Breuil du Bost du Broutet, his great-grandson, Garde du Corps of king Louis XV4 The de la Cotardière family1...
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(Guillaume Tell, 1829) (Tarr n.d.). Aged 15 he entered the Musique des Gardes-du-Corps du Roi as trumpeter and was later first trumpeter in the orchestra of the...
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depuis 1793, adressée par la veuve du comte de Saint-Morys, Maréchal de camp, lieutenant des Gardes-du-corps du Roi, à MM. les officiers-généreux et supérieurs...
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Swiss Guards (redirect from Gardes Suisses)
Guards were formally part of the Maison militaire du roi. As such, they were brigaded with the Gardes françaises (French Guards Regiment), with whom they...
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Guard Royal Guard Big band Royal Guard Chamber Ensembles Enlisted Gardes du Corps du Roi (France) Republican Guard (France) National Republican Guard (Portugal)...
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Prix Goncourt (redirect from Bourse Goncourt du Premier Roman)
lune 2005 – Natali Fortier, Lili Plume 2006 – Bernard du Boucheron and Nicole Claveloux, Un roi, une princesse and une pieuvre 2007 – Véronique Ovaldé...
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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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