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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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    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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    (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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  • 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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    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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  • 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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    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was a French royal guard formation which lasted a few months in 1792 as part of the Maison du Roi, being superseded...
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    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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    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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    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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  • 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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    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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  • 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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    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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    The petit appartement du roi (French: [pɛˈtit‿apaʁtəˈmɑ̃dyʁwa]) of the Palace of Versailles is a suite of rooms used by Louis XIV, Louis XV, and Louis XVI...
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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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  • 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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    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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  • commandant l'artillerie de la Garde du roi de Naples le 9 novembre 1807; colonel commandant l'artillerie de la Garde du roi d'Espagne, le 20 décembre 1809;...
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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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    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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    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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    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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    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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    Swiss Guards (redirect from Gardes Suisses)
    formally part of the Maison militaire du roi. As such, they were brigaded with the Regiment of French Guards (Gardes Françaises), with whom they shared the...
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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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    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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    l'histoire secrète du gouvernement Français Par Dufey page 275 de Launay écrit également Delaunay Un exempt, dans les gardes du corps du roi, est un officier...
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