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    Swiss Guards (French: Gardes Suisses; German: Schweizergarde; Italian: Guardie Svizzere) are Swiss soldiers who have served as guards at foreign European...
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    Delley. I. Les colonels généraux des suisses et grisons. II. Les Cent-Suisses de la garde du Roi (1481-1792) devenus gardes à pied ordinaires du corps du Roi...
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    been dissolved on 1 January 1776. The Garde du Corps (Body Guard), the Gardes françaises and the Gardes suisses remained in service. The first was retained...
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    guarding the exterior of the Palace of Versailles with the Gardes Suisses. In addition, the French Guards had responsibility for maintaining public order...
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  • General of the Hussards Colonel General of the Cent-Suisses and Grisons Colonel General of the Gardes Françaises Judging the position of Colonel General...
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    (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 military...
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    General of the Hussards, Colonel General of the Cent-Suisses & Grisons and Colonel General of the Gardes Françaises. Lieutenant-General of the Realm, a governor...
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    France, officially the French Republic, is a country located primarily in Western Europe. It also includes overseas regions and territories in the Americas...
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  • Franz Josef von Hallwyl (category Counts of France)
    and a French count. In 1733 Hallwyl became a cadet in the French regiment of horse, Royal Piemont; promoted to ensign in the Gardes Suisses 1740 he...
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  • Liechtenstein (Les plus beaux villages de Suisse). The idea of an association to gather the most beautiful villages of France was born in Collonges-la-Rouge, Corrèze...
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    service records and selected volunteers. Members of the former Régiment des Gardes Françaises (which had mutinied immediately before the storming of the Bastille)...
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    Thomas de Mahy, Marquis de Favras (category People executed by France by hanging)
    of the Seven Years' War. In 1772 he became a first lieutenant in the Gardes Suisses of King Louis XVI's younger brother, the Count of Provence. Unable to...
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    Charles-Axel Guillaumot (category Articles with French-language sources (fr))
    Guards: Rueil-Malmaison, what is now Guynemer, part of the Musée des Gardes suisses. the former caserne Charras in Courbevoie, inscribed as a 'Monument...
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    French cuisine is the cooking traditions and practices from France. In the 14th century, Guillaume Tirel, a court chef known as "Taillevent", wrote Le...
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    page 259, "Les Suisses au Service de la France", ISBN 2-226-03334-3 Madame Campan, Memoirs of the Court of Marie Antoinette, Queen of France, Project Gutenberg...
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    1792 – Les Tuileries : L'été tragique des relations franco-suisses, Collection Le savoir suisse – La série « Grandes Dates », presse polytechniques et universitaires...
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    A 2015 Credit Suisse report ranked the French Armed Forces as the world's sixth most powerful military. The military history of France encompasses an...
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    Louis Auguste, Duke of Maine (category 17th-century peers of France)
    (légitimé de France) 20 December 1673; Duc du Maine (1673) and made colonel général des Suisses et Grisons 1674; Captain of the Gardes Suisses 3 February...
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    de France) the first Almoner of France, who aids the Grand Almoner Military household: Captain of the bodyguard Captain-colonel of the Cent-Suisses Colonel...
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    Claude-François-Marie Rigoley (category CS1 French-language sources (fr))
    the Tuileries Palace, the "Salle des Cents-Suisses" returned to its original destination as "Salle des Gardes" and the Olympic Society ended its concerts...
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    Swiss Guard (category CS1 French-language sources (fr))
    Guardia Svizzera Pontificia; German: Päpstliche Schweizergarde; French: Garde suisse pontificale; Romansh: Guardia svizra papala) is an armed force and...
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    Women's March on Versailles (category Riots and civil disorder in France)
    of the palace at Versailles were the aristocratic Garde du Corps (Body Guard) and the Cent-Suisses (Hundred Swiss). Both were primarily ceremonial units...
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    Saint-Nicolas Church, Hérémence (category Articles needing translation from French Wikipedia)
    Guide artistique de la Suisse: Fribourg, Freiburg, Valais, Wallis (in French), vol. 4b, Bern: Société d'histoire de l'art en Suisse, 2012, p. 440, ISBN 978-3-906131-99-3...
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  • Infantry of the Colonies, and the Foreign Regiments. Gardes Françaises (6 Battalions) Gardes Suisses (4 Battalions) Régiment de Colonel Général Régiment...
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    Battle of Valenciennes (1656) (category Battles involving France)
    from 9,000 to 9,500 infantry soldiers from the French regiments of Gardes Françaises, Gardes Suisses, Bussy-Rabutin, Vervins, Dumbarton, Vandy, La Couronne...
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    Normandy (redirect from Normandy, France)
    Normandy (/ˈnɔːrməndi/; French: Normandie [nɔʁmɑ̃di] ; Norman: Normaundie, Nouormandie [nɔʁ.mɛnde]; from Old French Normanz, plural of Normant, originally...
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    Panetier of France, governor of Paris, capitaine colonel of the Cent-Suisses of the Garde du Roi, and a knight in various orders. In his later years, he became...
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  • Journey to the End of the Night (category CS1 French-language sources (fr))
    2021. Henry, Philippe: "Gardes suisses", in: Dictionnaire historique de la Suisse (DHS), 29.06.2007: "Swiss Guards" (in French). Retrieved 21 August 2021...
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    1873) was the first president of France from 1848 to 1852, and the last monarch of France as Emperor of the French from 1852 until he was deposed on...
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    Michel Corrette (category French Baroque composers)
    des Amusemens du Parnasse, contenant la Marche des Gardes Françaises et celle des Gardes Suisses, avec des Ariettes choisies accommodées pour le clavecin...
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