Uniformology - Guidons and Uniforms of The French Dragoons Under Louis XIV 1688-1714

GUIDONS AND UNIFORMS
OF THE
FRENCH DRAGOONS
UNDER
LOUIS XIV
1688-1714
by
R O B E RT H ALL
I N C O LLAB O R ATI O N WI TH
Y V E S R O U M E GO U X & G I AN C AR LO B O E R I
First Edition 2001
Copyright according to the Berne Convention. All rights reserved.

© R. Hall 2001
Guidons and Uniforms of the French Dragoons under Louis XIV 1688-1714
Table of Contents
Introduction ....................................................................................................................................................................4
Those who helped . . .....................................................................................................................................................4
Bibliography...................................................................................................................................................................4
Manuscripts and original sources ...................................................................................................................................4
Printed and secondary sources........................................................................................................................................5
Periodicals ......................................................................................................................................................................5
Regiment 01 Royal, Du Roi ..................................................................................................................................9
Regiment 02 Colonel Général.............................................................................................................................11
Regiment 03 La Reine .........................................................................................................................................13
Regiment 04 Dauphin..........................................................................................................................................15
Regiment 05 Grammont, Payssac, Listenois, Beauffremont ...........................................................................17
Regiment 06 Barbezières, d’Estrades, Bellisle, Bonnelles................................................................................20
Regiment 07 Mestre de Camp Général..............................................................................................................22
Regiment 08 Peysonnel, Gaubert, Albert, Vidame, Du Heron ........................................................................24
Regiment 09 La Lande, Verac, Caylus ..............................................................................................................26
Regiment 10 Chevilly, Caylus, Lautrec .............................................................................................................28
Regiment 11 Tessé, Sennectère, Belabre ...........................................................................................................30
Regiment 12 Asfeld, d’Hautefort, Saumery ......................................................................................................32
Regiment 13 Fimarcon, Cayla, Tilladet, Châtillon...........................................................................................34
Regiment 14 Langedoc I .....................................................................................................................................35
Regiment 15 d’Avaray, La Vrillière, Rouvoy ...................................................................................................37
Regiment 16 Du Héron........................................................................................................................................38
Regiment 17 Catinat de Saint-Gratien ..............................................................................................................39
Regiment 18 Saint-Frémont, Cilly .....................................................................................................................39
Regiment 19 Grammont-Fallon, Chantran, Frontenay ...................................................................................40
Regiment 20 Sailly ...............................................................................................................................................40
Regiment 21 Wartigny ........................................................................................................................................41
Regiment 22 Gohas..............................................................................................................................................41
Regiment 23 Bretoncelles....................................................................................................................................42
Regiment 24 Gévaudan, Vidame, Vassé, Pourrières ........................................................................................42
Regiment 25 Du Breuil, Roux.............................................................................................................................43
Regiment 26 d’Averne, Barreau, des Aydes......................................................................................................43
Regiment 27 Boufflers.........................................................................................................................................44
Regiment 28 Breteuil...........................................................................................................................................44
Regiment 29 Asfeld Étranger .............................................................................................................................44
Regiment 30 Grammont, d‘Escorailles..............................................................................................................46
Regiment 31 Ganges-Cadet ................................................................................................................................46
Regiment 32 Bretagne.........................................................................................................................................46
Regiment 33 La Salle, de La Verchère, Poitiers, Despeaux, Conflans ............................................................47
Regiment 34 Pomponne, Fontbeausard, Saint-Chamond................................................................................48
Regiment 35 Saint-Hermine, Rohan-Chabot ....................................................................................................49
Regiment 36 Langedoc II....................................................................................................................................50
Regiment 37 Verrue ............................................................................................................................................51
Regiment 38 Silly, Payssac, Gouffier .................................................................................................................51
Regiment 39 Rannes, Le Cogneux .....................................................................................................................51
Regiment 40 Montalet .........................................................................................................................................52
Regiment 41 Anvoile, Bragalonne......................................................................................................................52
Regiment 42 Morsan ...........................................................................................................................................53
Regiment 43 Artois, Arrincourt .........................................................................................................................53
Regiment 44 Valençay.........................................................................................................................................54
Regiment 45 Roi d‘Angleterre............................................................................................................................54
Regiment 46 Reine d’Angleterre........................................................................................................................55
Regiment 47 Saint-Sernin ...................................................................................................................................55
Regiment 48 Bozelli.............................................................................................................................................56
Regiment 49 Villegagnon, de Prie, Vitry ...........................................................................................................56
Regiment 50 Pézeux ............................................................................................................................................57
Regiment 51 d’Aubigné, Lesparre, Granville ...................................................................................................58
Regiment 52 La Bâtie, La Lande........................................................................................................................61
Regiment 53 Montmain, Courtebonne, Chazelles, d‘Auzeville .......................................................................62
Regiment 54 Chastillon, Sevron .........................................................................................................................63
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Regiment 55 Guyenne .........................................................................................................................................64

Regiment 56 Escorailles, Saumery, Saint-Priest, Bellisle.................................................................................64
Regiment 57 Espinay, d‘Houdetot .....................................................................................................................65
Regiment 58 Parpailles, Flandres ......................................................................................................................66
Regiment 59 Saint Hermine, Saint Chaumont..................................................................................................66
Index of names ........................................................................................................................................................67
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Introduction
The doubtful practice of lodging bad Catholics in the homes of good Protestants to encourage them to
convert has gone into history under the name “Dragonnades” thus giving this arm of service a bad name. In
fact the infamous dragonnades involved units of all arms and there is no evidence to indicate that dragoons
were over-represented. The dragoons were the youngest arm of service, fashionable and flamboyant in their
dress and therefore readily identifiable as French soldiers. They were also Louis XIV’s “favorite” arm of
service. This made them obvious targets for the press and pamphleteers of the day, earning them an
undeserved reputation as instruments of an inhuman policy.
All the more reason to take a look at the appearance of those men who set a fashion quickly followed in the
armies of Europe.
In this book we are continuing the work begun on the flags and uniforms of the French infantry under Louis
XIV. The clothing contracts held in the Archives Nationales at Paris have once again helped to close some
of the gaps on the uniforms of the men and officers of the period. Unfortunately we do not have as complete
a source of information on the guidons of the dragoons and standards of the cavalry as we had in the Du
Vivier manuscript for the infantry. The allied trophies have helped to fill in some of the gap. For those
wishing to represent the units in tin or similar we have included the coats of arms of the colonels as far as
known.
Those who helped . . .
This is note the work of a single individual but of a team. The group, which assisted in the creation of the
“French Infantry”, collaborated even more closely in this case and for this reason I have included the names
of Gian Carlo Boeri and Yves Roumegoux on the title page. Together we followed Gian Carlo’s original idea
of looking for contracts in the Minutier Central at the Archives Nationales analogous to his experience for
other armies of the period, which form a large portion of the previously unpublished information in this
document.
Once again thanks is due to Général (C.R.) Michel Hanotaux for his support and his generosity in giving us
access to those contracts which he had also found in the Archives Nationales.
Those who know the work of my late friend Pierre Fouré on the subject will recognize that much is based on
his lead. The detailed descriptions assigned to Delaistre are based on his notes.
The lists of actions, quarters and camps are largely based on those diligently compiled by Claus-Peter
Golberg, the well-known authority on the period, who kindly allowed me to use the information here.
Bibliography
Manuscripts and original sources
1. Blazoned description of flags and standards taken by the allies during the War of the Spanish
Succession drawn by Anna Beek (Photos and drawings of the original in the Leger Museum in The
Hague [Anna Beek].
2. Blazoned description of 128 flags and 35 standards taken by the allies at the Battle of Blenheim
18.08.1704 by Spofforth [Spofforth].
3. Notes on contemporary descriptions of uniforms compiled by Giancarlo Boeri and René Chartrand and
generously made available to me by Giancarlo Boeri. The documents concerned are: “État Général des
Troupes de France 1692” (Service historique de l’Armée de terre, manuscrit A1B 1626, surnommé “Les
Tiroirs de Louis XIV” [A1B]; “Le Mercure Galant” septembre 1698 [Gal]; “État des troupes Françaises
1698 par L.F. Corfey” [Cor]; “État des Troupes de France en l’année 1702” (S.H.A.T A2B) [A2B]. These
documents are invaluable in helping to guage the accuracy of the descriptions in Lienhart & Humbert.
4. Notes on contemporary notary contracts to be found in the series “MC” (Minutier Central des notaires
de Paris) in the Archives Nationales in Paris. The contracts for regimental clothing were registered by
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a notary public. Although we only had the names of two notaries to work on this source has delivered ca.
120 contracts to date and has not been exhausted by any means. While the contracts detail the dress,
the lace of the drummers is largely reconstructed [AN]
Printed and secondary sources
1. Charrié, Pierre “Drapeaux et étendards du Roi” Paris 1989 Editions Le Léopard d’Or ISBN 2-86377-090-
8. This is a comprehensive history of all known flags and standards of the Ancien Régime written by the
accredited expert on the subject. Although well illustrated, most of the flags are described only in written
form, which leaves a lot of latitude of interpretation. [Charrié]
2. Choppin, Henri “Histoire générale des dragons depuis leur origine jusqu’à l’Empire”, Paris 1879, reprint
C. Terana 1996, ISBN 2-904221-21-2 [Choppin]
5. Dangeau, Philippe, marquis de “Journal du marquis de Dangeau”, Paris, 1854-60. [Dangeau]
3. Dubuisson, P. P. “Armorial alphabetique des principales maisons et familles du Royaume” Paris, 1757,
reprinted Chez Jean de Bonnot, Paris, 1987, for contemporary coats of arms.
4. Fouré, Pierre “Histoire des dragons sous Louis XIV”, privately published St. Cloud, 1978. [Fouré]
5. Fouré, Pierre “Trophées de la guerre de succession d’Espagne 1700-1713”, St. Cloud 1982.
6. Goldberg & Wagner “Bemalungsangaben für die Zeit des spanischen Erbfolgekrieges 1701-1714”,
Hannover, and personal notes made by him. [Golberg]
7. Grant, Charles Stewart “From Pike to Shot 1685-1720”, Wargames Research Group 1986 [Grant].
8. Kühn, August “Materialien zum spanischen Erbfolgekriege” Part 33 privately published Hinterwössen
1995 [Kühn].
9. Leliepvre, Eugene, “Costume Militaire Ancien Regime No. 9 – Les Premiers Dragons 1640-1725”,
Edition Hussard du Marais, Paris.
10. Lynn, John A. “Giant of the Grand Siècle, the French Army 1610-1715” Cambridge University Press
1999 ISBN 0-521-57273-8. This is the most comprehensive history of the organization and structure of
the French army currently available in English. [Lynn].
11. Mac Carthy, Marcel Dugué “Soldats du Roi – Les armées de l’Ancien Régime 1610-1789”, Collections
du musée de l’armée, Tome 4, Paris 1984, ISBN 2-904768-02-5. [Mac Carthy]
12. Pétard, Michel, “Equipements militaires de 1600 à 1870 - Tome I de 1600 à 1750”, 1984 ISBN 2-
9500490-1-X.
13. RIGO, “Planches documentaires Ancien Régime - Le Plumet”.
14. Rietstap, J. B. “Armorial Général” 1884, reprinted by Heraldry Today, London 1988 ISBN 0-900455-18-
7. Many of the coats of arms shown are taken from Rietstap and V. & H.V. Rolland’s “Illustrations to the
Armorial Général”, Heraldry Today 1967. .
15. Saint-Rémy “Memoires d’Artillerie” 1702, reprint LTR Verlag, Bad Honneff 1982 ISBN 3-88706-149-7.
16. Sourches, “Memoires du marquis de Sourches”, Paris 1891-92.
17. Susane “Histoire de la Cavalerie Française” 3 vol. Paris 1876 – reprint C. Terana 1989 ISBN 2-904221-
03-4. Susane’s books have been used for the details of service and colonels. [Susane]
18. Pat Condray, “A Wargamer’s Introduction to the Age of Marlborough”, Editions Brokaw 1988 [Condray].
19. Tessin, Georg “Die Regimenter der europäischen Staaten im Ancien Régime des XVI bis XVIII
Jahrhunderts” Teil 1, Biblio Verlag, Osnabrück 1986 ISBN 3-7648-1488-8. Containing a list of almost
every regiment of the period with a unique number in the form “yyyy/nnn” where “yyyy” is the year of
foundation and “nnn” a number of the unit as raised during the year. It has been used here as an EDP-
key to keep all details of the regiment together. With regard to the French regiments the number
corresponds largely with the order of creation given by Susane. [Tessin]
20. Dr Lienhart & René Humbert “Les uniformes de l’armée française de 1690 à 1894” Leipzig 1900, reprint
Editions D. A., La Chapelle en Vercors 1989. [LeH]
Periodicals
1. “Carnet de la Sabretache” N.S. No.52 1980 “Le Tableau des Trophées conquis par les Hollandais de
Anna Beek – 1713” by Pierre Charrié.
2. “Carnet de la Sabretache” N.S. No.53 1980 “Le Tableau des Trophées conquis par les Hollandais de
Anna Beek – 1713” by Pierre Charrié.
3. others quoted and named in the text.
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Origins
The need to transport infantry rapidly is as old as the history of warfare but it was only in the late
renaissance period that permanent companies of horsed infantry were set up using horses for transport but
fighting on foot. Initially they consisted of both musketeers and pikemen but the obvious difficulties of
transporting a 5-meter long pike on horseback soon reduced the function to infantry carrying firearms. The
French dragoons originated from the “arquebusiers à cheval” which existed already in 1560. The origin of
the name dragoon is lost in history and has as many explanations as there are authors, although the more
recent opinion sees it related to the German word “tragen” meaning simply carrying or wearing – the horse
carrying an infantryman. The name turns up already around 1585 but became a usual designation during the
Thirty Years War and was first used officially on the formation of 6 regiments in 1635. Despite that, official
usage still preferred the term “carabins”. Thus the Comte de Quincy was known as “Mestre de Camp
Général des Carabins” from 1660 to 1684.
The first companies and regiments of dragoons were disbanded at the end of a war and it was only in 1656,
due to the patronage of the King, that the first permanent regiment, Royal, appeared.
Père Daniel gives a description of the early service of the dragoons. They were used for escorting convoys,
harassing the enemy on the march or retreat, quickly occupying a post the infantry could not reach in time,
or simply fighting on foot or on horseback. In camp they were positioned on the wings or advance posts, at
river crossings, defiles, bridgeheads, to cover the headquarters. On the march they were put at the head
and tail of columns, etc. Only later did they fight in line although their horses were a lot smaller than those of
the cavalry (12 hands against 17 hands high). The liveliness of their charges and the speed, at which they
moved to wherever they were needed, made them best in the role of a reserve, which was their true position
on the day of battle. There they could be used to turn a wing of the enemy line, to take it in flank or rear, to
pierce a corps of infantry or cavalry which was too extended. They would charge a corps of infantry in flank
while it was starting a charge. In sieges they were put in detachments at the head of the sap to shoot at
anyone showing himself on a rampart and covered ways. In a word: they supported both cavalry and infantry
in a multitude of ways. No wonder that commanders could not have enough of them on campaign.
With regard to training and drill they learnt all the movements of the cavalry on horse and on foot and all
those of the infantry with the exception that, while the cavalry usually appeared sword in hand on a review or
when entering quarters, the dragoons appeared with the flintlock held high. Their exercise on foot was only
slightly different from that of the infantry.
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Their rank was exactly specified in an ordonance of 1 December 1689 which stated that when cavalry and
dragoons were together, the dragoons were to be positioned on the left of the line, while on the march the
commander could place them at the head or tail of the column or mixed with the cavalry, as he judged
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necessary. In garrisons they were treated as infantry and on campaign as cavalry. An ordonance of 30 July
1695 regulated the rank of the officers: in an enclosed place the cavalry and dragoon officers deferred to an
infantry officer of equal rank while on campaign the situation was reversed. In the case of a cavalry officer
and a dragoon officer of equal rank and date of commission, the dragoon officer deferred to the cavalry
officer.
In each regiment there was a Mestre de Camp (colonel), a lieutenant-colonel, a major, an aide-major, and in
each company a captain, a lieutenant, a cornet during wartime and a reformed lieutenant in peace, a
maréchal des logis (sergeant) and two brigadiers (corporals). The company also had a drummer and a
hautbois. Regiments that had conquered kettledrums were allowed to keep them (e.g. Bretesche).
There were usually twelve companies varying from 30 to 60 men. Each regiment had 3 squadrons.
An interesting point is the manner in which dragoons tied their horses when dismounted. A line attached to
the bridle was looped into a ring below that of the neighboring horse so that each horse was attached to the
next one. At each end of the line of horses was a dragoon and the whole was put under the command of the
most junior officer of the regiment. Releasing the horse at the end released all horses quickly to allow
remounting.
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General Notes on Uniforms

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An ordonance of 16 March 1676 specified the following: all officers of cavalry and dragoons are to arm
each trooper and dragoon in their companies with a good sword with a blade of at least 2 feet 9 inches royal
measure without taking the garde and hilt into account, 2 pistols (one for dragoons) and a musketoon and
each dragoon should also have a bayonet. Each dragoon carried a tool to facilitate passage during marches
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instead of the second pistol (an axe, a pick, shovel, hoe or scythe).
Dragoon regiments seem to have been as slow as the infantry to adopt uniform but certainly the dragoon
cap was typical. For a rider dismounting to fight it was more convenient to sling the musket over the
shoulder. Slinging the musket was hindered by the broad-brimmed hat of the day and so, similar to the
grenadiers, it became usual to wear a simple peasant cap. This cap was typical of the peasant clothing of
the day, a type of „sleeping cap“ edged with fur. Rapidly accepted as the „dragoon headgear“ it became
enlarged, formalized and, a special mark of distinction, was also adopted by the officers. Dragoons were
always issued with the usual tricorn hat as well. The hat was worn off-duty and probably also in bad
weather. The cap was to be worn when passing review before the King, princes or the Colonel-Général. It
was worn while foraging and attached to the horse’s head during musters in front of an inspector. An
exception was the regiment Colonel Général, which wore the cap only when being reviewed by the King.
The Mercure Galant of 1680 mentions: „Each of the regiments had hautbois dressed in the colonel’s livery
and all officers were to be dressed in the uniforms of the regiments.“ That officers were to wear caps is
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repeated for 1698.
In 1684 it was ordered that all officers of dragoons were to be armed with a flintlock, whether they were
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active or reformed.
Lienhart & Humbert cite an ordonnance of 1690 that specified that the saddlecloths and holster covers were
to be of the regimental facing colour edged with white lace. They also speak of lapels, which did not come
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onto style until much later. Here we have ignored them.
Looking at the data available on uniforms one is struck by the number of contradictions. It would appear that
the above ordonance may have been obeyed in the early years but later there was a tendency to change
more items to the coat colour while some, older items, retained the other colours. This assumption is
supported by the apparent contradictions in Delaistre, where several figures for the same regiment have
different uniforms, which are not to be explained by a difference in rank. Practical considerations such as not
wanting bright colours for breeches and waistcoats may also have determined what was actually worn.
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In 1702 it was laid down that troopers are all to have boots and dragoons „bottines“ (leather leggings).
According to a note on the state of the cavalry and dragoons in Italy dated 02.01.1702: All companies of
dragoons are to have: capes, coats, caps, hats, gloves and neckcloths. For 35 men: 15 flintlocks, 15 sabres,
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15 belts and 15 bandoliers, 25 pairs of leggings (bottines), 18 complete saddles, were ordered.
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19/5/1676 T3 P 417 Tous les Officiers de Cavalerie et de Dragons seront tenuz de faire armer les Cavaliers et Dragons de leurs
compagnies chacun d’une bonne épée, dont la lame soit au moins de la longueur de 2 pieds 9 pouces mesure du Roy sans ce prendre la
garde et le poignée … de 2 pistolets et d’un mousqueton, et chaque Dragon aura en outre une bayionnet.
Nota Le Dragons sont armez d’un fusil avec une bayonette, d’une épée et d’un pistolet, portant chacun un outil pour faciliter les passages
dans les marches au lieu d’un second pistolet (pic, pelle, pioche ou serpe)…
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1680 Mercure Galant Chacun de ces Regimens avoient des Hautbois vétus des Livrées des Colonels & tous les Officiers vétus de
celles des Regimens.
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12/12/1684 T5P184 Chacun des Officiers reformez de Cavalerie et de Dragons sera armé d’un mousqueton.
Nota Tous les Officiers de Dragons tant en pied que reformez doivent estre arméz d’un fusil.
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“la housse et l’équipage du cheval qui, dit l’ordonnance.....devront être de la couleur distinctive affectée au corps, et bordés d’un
galon de fil blanc“.‘
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14/6/1702 T13P117 Les Cavaliers auront tous des bottes et les Dragons des Bottines.
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2/1/1702 Stato della Cavalleria e Dragoni in Italia (Nota sui costi per rivestire i dragoni)
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The available clothing contracts mention a black canvas „bourse“ or bag – since it is part of the clothing
rather than the military equipment we assume it was the container for personal possessions of the trooper
and usually carried wrapped in the cloak behind the saddle.
Guidons
Each company carried a guidon. The relevant regulations are reasonably precise:
„The guidons are longer than broad, of material similar to that of the ensigns with the ends a little rounded,
the lances 8 or 9 feet long.“ [Gaya 1678 p.132-134 cited in France Livrée]
1684 „The standard is a piece of cloth about one and a half feet square on which the arms, mottos or
cyphers of the princes or mestres de camp are embroidered. The standard is usually attached to the end of
a lance of 8 or 9 feet in length and in rainy weather it is enclosed in a cover, which is attached to the metal of
the lance.... The cornet is to have a boot made expressly to receive the heel of the lance of the standard and
a sash to tie around his body in combat for fear of it being taken from him.“ [Mannesson-Mallet 1684 T III
p92 cited in France Livrée]
(idem p 106) „ ... under the name guidon we understand a type of flag of which the cloth is similar to that of
flags but which is longer than broad and slit at the end to form two somewhat rounded points.“
(idem p.97) regarding trumpets: “…it is on this banderole that one usually paints or embroiders the arms of
the mestre de camp who owns the trumpet.“ [Mannesson-Mallet 1684 T III p97 cited in France Livrée]
Ordonannce of 1689: „From now on each squadron of cavalry or dragoons is to have two standards of the
livery of the mestre de camp and to avoid confusion and to ease distinguishing them from the enemy. It is
ordered that standards that did not have fleurs de lis are to have the sun on the right side and that the
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devices of the mestre de camp are to be only on the reverse.“
The shape was not uniform but generally followed a pattern of rounded swallowtails. Various regiments
seem to have used a more triangular pattern. This could be due to the interpretation of captured examples
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by Spofforth and Anna Beek but later in the 18 century similar patterns can be found again.
While the size is not specified, dragoon guidons seem to have been slightly larger than the 50cm x 50cm
size of cavalry standards of the period.
Per ogni compagnia di Dragoni (a cui si aggiungono 12 uomini) servono : manteaux, justeaucorps,
bonnets; chapeaux, gands, cravattes. pour 35; 15 fusils, 15 sabres, 15 ceinturons & 15
bandouillieres, 25 paires de bottines, 18 selles garnis (SHAT A/1).
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[L’ordonnance du 1er février 1689] stipule „Il y a dorénavant en chaque escadron de cavalerie ou de dragon deux étendards de la
livrée du mestre de camp et afin d’éviter la confusion et qu’on puisse les distinguer d’avec ceux des ennemis. Ordonne qu’aux
étendards où il n’y aura pas de fleurs de lis il y ait du côté droit un soleil et que la devise du mestre de camp soit seulement sur le
revers.“
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Regiment 01 Royal, Du Roi
Raised: 14.06.1656 Susane: 323 Tessin: 1656/5 Fouré: 4 Plate 01
Name:
Royal, Du Roi
Mestres de camp-lieutenants & Colonels

14.06.1656 Comte degli Oddi (César)
23.01.1658 Marquis de Puyguilhem (Antoine-Nompar de Caumont)
02.04.1668 de Bonvisy (Charles)
02.09.1669 Marquis de Boufflers (Louis- François)
23.05.1679 Marquis d’Alègre (Yves)
27.04.1693 Comte de Nogent (Louis-Armand de Beautru)
12.05.1704 Comte de Creuilly (Paul-Édouard Colbert)
10.03.1734 Duc de Fleury (André-Hercule de Rosset de Rocozel)
1791=> DR 1
This regiment was originally raised for the king by General Montecuccoli who decided to go into Imperial
service and left the regiment in French service.
Uniform:
1663 [Papal Nuncio] blue coat and cloak, the hat on their saddlehorn and a cap on the head. 10-12 of the
company have fusils and the others muskets with bayonets which can be attached to the musket to make it
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serve as a small pike...
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1671 [Papal Nuncio] cloak and coats blue lined red with a fine buff jacket.
1680 [Gal] dressed in blue, lined red with blue bonnets cap with red plush and bound with gold buttonlace.
[Gal, Stenay] „ vêtu de bleu doublé de rouge avec des bonnets bleus parez de pluches rouges & attachées de boutonnières d'or.“
1690 [L&H] coat blue, breeches, cuffs, linings, cap bag red. Saddlecloth red edged white. Cap bag red
trimmed with fur.
1692 [A1B]: blue faced red [Fouré] waistcoat and breeches red. Caps with red bag lined blue laced white.
Buttons buttonlace and shoulderknot perhaps yellow. (We don’t know when they became white as indicated
by Delaistre but probably before 1698.) Horse furniture red edged white.
26.01.1699 contract for [AN]:
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600 bandoleers double stiched, 4 ½ inches broad with plaques like those of the Gardes du Roy.
1698 [Gal]: blue faced red, buttons tin

1698 [Cor]: blue faced red, hat ribbons white, hatlace silver, lace white, shoulder knot white.
1700 [Kühn 3] coat red, cuffs isabelle, lining red, waistcoat isabelle, breeches red, buttons white??? (This
description is also given by Condray. It is unclear where it originated.)
1702 [A2B] blue faced red.
1715 [Pajol] coat blue, cloak blue, breeches red, cuffs red.
1721 [Mac Carthy-Delaistre] Horse furniture blue edged with white lace, rolled cloak blue.
1721 [Delaistre] 5 drawings, example: blue coat, cuffs red or blue, linings red or blue, waistcoat red, lace
white, buttons white, cap blue bag lined red, neckcloth white, cloak blue lined red or blue, shabraque
blue edged white.
1738 Lemau: coat and cloak blue, lining, facings, breeches and waistcoat red, laces white with tin, worked
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27/12/1663 ASVat Nunz Savoia Giunsero poi le 6 compagnie di Dragoni li quali non passano il numero di 442 uomini con i loro
servitori. Portano questi tutti un ferraiolo torchino, il cappello all’arcione e un berrettone in testa; 10 o 12 per compagnia hanno i focili e
gli altri i moschetti, et oltre i moschetti hanno una bajonetta, la quale dopo sparato si mette nel moschetto e serve poi per una mezza
picca.
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25/3/1671 (Nunziatura Parigi) Si levava in Parigi in tutta fretta un Reggimento di 1.000 Dragoni, che dovranno seguire nella giornata
à Paesi Bassi S.M., vestiti tutti di cappe e ferraioli di panno di color turchino, fodrati di rosso con colletti bellissimi ...
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[AN] 600 bandoliers de guinée piquees a deux rangs de largeur de quatre pouces et demy, led. ................... a placques ansi que celles
des Gardes du Roy Et semables a la qualité de L’Echantillon
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buttons in groups of three with white buttonlace, bonnet blue lined red and edged white. Belt etc. in
stitched leather, stockings white, hat with a thin silver lace and black cockade. The horse furniture
blue edged white with the royal cypher.
Guidons:
1675 [Mercure Hollandois] (taken by the Dutch) of blue colour.
1680 [Gal] Standards blue semés of fleurs-de-lys in gold. Three squadrons.
17xx [Susane]: blue with sun and royal motto with fleurs-de-lys in the corners, embroidery and fringes
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gold.
1702 [Beek, Eckeren] blue with gold fringes, sun and fleurs de lys gold.
17xx [Charrié] obverse blue. Semé of gold fleurs-de-lys. Sun, royal motto, embroidery and fringes gold
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and silver, reverse blue identical to the obverse.
1738-40 [Lemau] 4 guidons of blue silk with the sun in gold and the royal motto and semé of gold fleurs-de-
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lys and embroidered and fringed in gold and silver according to the Royal Ordonances of 1737.
yyyy.mm.dd Actions, Quarters and Camps

1667 Douai, Courtrai, Lille, sieges
1668 Besançon, Dôle taken
1670 Lorraine occupation, Épinal, Chasté
1672 Burik, Arnhem, Skenke, Woerden
1672-73 Winterquarters Utrecht
1674 Germany under Turenne
1674.10.04 Ensheim battle, Mulhausen
1675 Jan. Turkheim
1675 Alternheim combat
1675 Hagenau, Saverne occupation
1676 Kokersberg
1677 Freiburg siege, garrison
1678 Rheinfeld, Seckingen
1678 Kehl, Lichtenberg sieges
1679 Minden
1681 Sarre camp
1682 Sarre camp
1684 Luxemburg siege, Geldern
1685 Saône camp
1689 Flanders, Walcourt combat
1690.06.29 Sambre passage, Fleurus battle
1691 Mons siege, Leuze
1692 Namur siege, Steinkirk battle
1693 Moselle, Rhine
1694 coast
1695 Meuse Namur defence + Martinet lieutenant-colonel
1696 Flanders
1697 Ath siege
1698 Compiègne camp
1702.09.28 OB Flanders 3 sqn.
1702-17.03 Winter quarters in Saint Omer, early 1703 in Brabant
1703 Eckeren combat 3 sqn.
1703.11.15 Speyerbach combat 3 sqn.
1704 Moselle
1705.07.03 station at Orsmael.Tirlemont 3 sqn.
1706.05.23 Ramillies battle 3 sqn.
1706.07.29 Valenciennes garrison 3 sqn.
1706.08.19 lower Deule camp 3 sqn.
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[Susane] „Les guidons de Royal-dragons étaient bleus avec le soleil, la devise royale, et les fleurs de lys dans les coins, le tout
brodé et frangé d’or.
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[Charrié] Av.: bleu. Semis de fleurs de lys or. Soleil, devise. Brodé, frangé or et argent. Rv. : bleu. Identique à l’avers.
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1738 [Lemau] Ce Régiment a 4 Guidons de soye bleue, Soleil d'or au milieu & Devise du Roy & semez de fleurs de lys d'or
brodées en or & en argent & frangez de même suivant les Ordonnances du Roi de 1737.
1740 [Lemau] Ce Régiment a 4 Guidons de soye bleue, Soleil d'or de chaque côté semez de fleurs de lys brodés en or & frangez
de même.
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1707.06.25 Gemblours camp 3 sqn.

1707.08.17 Chierres camp 3 sqn.
1708 OB Flanders 3 sqn.
1708.09.17 Oudenaarde battle 3 sqn.
1708.11.12 Furembach stations 3 sqn.
1709.06.13 Condé quarters 3 sqn.
1709.07.24 Denain camp 3 sqn.
1709 Malplaquet
1709.10.28 Landrecies, 29.10 Avesnes, 30.10. Beaumont 3 sqn.
1710.05.15 Cambrai camp 3 sqn.
1710-1711 Winter quarters in Vailly 3 sqn.
1712 Bouchain siege 3 sqn.
1712 Douai, Le Quesnoy
1713 Landau, Freiburg
Regiment 02 Colonel Général
Name:
Colonel Général
Colonels généraux
02.04.1668 Duc de Lauzun (Antoine-Nompar de Caumont de Puyguilhem)
28.07.1669 Marquis de Rannes (Nicolas d’Argouges)
26.08.1678 Duc de Boufflers (Louis-François)
29.04.1692 Comte de Tessé (René de Froulay)
25.03.1703 Duc de Guiche (Antoine de Gramont)
07.12.1704 Duc de Coigny (François de Franquetot)
15.01.1734 Comte de Coigny (Jean-Antoine-François de Franquetot)
Mestres de camp-commandants & Colonels

22.07.1671 Marquis de Tilladet (Gabriel de Cassagnet)
24.06.1681 Comte de Saint-Florentin (Balthazar Phelypeaux) +Steenkirk
25.12.1692 de Saint-Mars +Neerwinden
01.01.1694 de Bournonville (N. Moret)
15.02.1702 de Berville (Charles Legendre)
mar. 1719 de Préval
1791=> DR 5
Uniform:
1680 [Gal] „Dressed in scarlet lined blue with buttonlace silver. Bonnet red lined with blue plush fastened
with silver buttonlace. The officers magnificently clothed and their justaucorps decorated with silver Spanish
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lace brandenbourgs. The Compagnie Generale was distinguished by having white horses.“
1690 [Gal] 1690 waistcoat blue.
1690 [L&H] coat red, breeches, cuffs, linings, cap bag blue, buttons silver. Shabraque blue with white
edge.
1692 [A1B]: red facings blue, breeches blue. [Fouré] Bonnet lined red with blue bag edged white. Coat
red, cuffs, linings and breeches blue, waistcoat blue decorated with a silver lace and white lace on
cuffs (which he assigns to Mercure Galant as source), pockets at back of waist. Buttons white, cloak
red.
1698 [Cor]: red faced blue, hat ribbons, hatlace silver, lace white, shoulder knot white.
1702 [A2B]: red facings blue.
1715 [Pajol] coat and cloak red, cuffs and breeches blue, waistcoat with silver lace.
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1680 (Mercure Galant) Le Regiment Colonel General estoit vétu d'ecarlate doublé de bleu, avec des boutonnières d'argent, de un
bonnet rouge doublé de pluches bleues attachées aussi de boutonnières d'argent. Les Officiers magnifiquement vétus & leur juste-à-
corps chamarez de Brandebourgs à pointe d'Espagne d'argent. ..........La Compagnie Generale estoit distinguée en ce qu'el avoit des
chevaux blancs.
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1721 [Sabretache - Delaistre] red coat, blue facing, waistcoat blue, breeches red, aiguillette white.
1721 [Mac Carthy-Delaistre] horse furniture: red without a lace edging.
1721 [Delaistre] 3 drawings, example: coat red, cuffs blue, waistcoat blue, breeches red or blue, neckcloth
black or white, cap red with light coloured fur and white lace, aiguilette white, cloak blue lined red,
shabraque red without border.
1700 [Kühn] coat red, cuffs blue, lining blue, waistcoat blue, breeches blue, buttons white.
1738 [Lemau] coat and cloak red, linings, cuffs, waistcoat and breeches blue, buttons tin shaped and with
white buttonlace, caps red lined blue laced white, belts, equipment cords and cartridge pouch in
leather stitched white, stockings white, hat with a thin silver lace and a black cocade, horse furniture
red bordered white with the Royal cypher.
Guidons:
1680 [Golberg] Colonel’s guidon white, other red. Golden bombs, „L“s crowned.
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1680 [Gal ] The colonel‘s standard white, semé of flames in gold and having three squadrons.
1680 [Charrié]: one white and four red guidons, the colonel white with 106 golden flames, embroidery and
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fringes gold, obverse and reverse identical.
1703 Eckeren variation!
1700 General Susane says, „The regiment of the Colonel Général had 5 white guidons, all similar, semé
of fleurs-de-lys with the sun and the royal cypher crowned along with the motto „Victoria pinget“, the
whole bordered and fringed gold. The future form „pinget“ serves to remind that this standard did not
change after the formation of the regiment in 1668.“ Surely an error, since the description matches
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the guidons of Mestre de Camp Général.
1720 [Charrié] colonel’s guidon white and semé of golden flames. In the middle the Royal monogramme,
embroidery and fringes gold. Guidon d’ordonnance: crimson, the rest identical to the colonel’s
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guidon. Obverse and reverse identical, no changes until 1791.
1738-40 [Lemau] four guidons, one white, three crimson, semé of fleurs-de-lys, with the crowned Royal
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monogramme in the middle, embroidery and fringes gold following the Royal Ordonances of 1737.

1673 Maastricht siege
1674 Seneffe battle
1675 Dinant, Huy, Limburg occupation
1676 Condé, Bouchain, Aire sieges
1677 Valenciennes, Cambrai sieges
1678 Ghent, Ypres
1681 Saar camp
1683 Saône camp
1685 Adour camp
1688 Flanders
1689 Flanders
1690 Germany
1691 Germany
1692 Flanders
1693 Flanders, Moselle, Rhine
1693 Steenkirk battle +mestre de camp commandant
1693 Neerwinden battle +mestre de camp commandant
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[Gal]„L'Etandart Colonel blanc, semé de flâmes d'or faisoient trois Escadrons.“
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[Charrié] : un guidon à fond blanc et quatre à fond rouge. Guidon colonel: blanc avec semis de 106 flammes d’or. Brodé, frangé or.
Avers et revers identiques. Guidon d’ordonnance: cramoisi. Soleil, devise, semis de flammes d’or. Brodé, frangé or. Avers et revers
identiques.
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[Susane]„Le régiment du Colonel Général avait 5 guidons blancs, tous sembables, semés de fleurs de lys, avec le soleil et le chiffre
du roi couronné et la devise : Victoria pinget ; le tout bordé et frangé d’or. Le futur pinget donne à penser que cet étendard n’a pas
changé depuis la formation du régiment en 1668.“
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[Charrié] : guidon colonel: blanc semé de flammes d’or. Au centre monogramme du roi couronné. Brodé, frangé or. Guidon
d’ordonnance: cramoisi. Identique pour le reste au précédent. Avers et revers identiques. Pas de changement jusqu’en 1791.
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1738 [Lemau] Ce Régiment a 4 Guidons de soye blanche, semez de fleurs de lys d'or & le chiffre du Roy couronné au milieu brodé
d'or & frangez d'or suivant les Ordonnances du Roi de 1737.
1740 [Lemau]Ce Régiment a 4 Guidons de soye, dont un blanc, semé de fleurs de lys d'or avec le chiffre du Roy couronné au
milieu & semé de flames d'or sans nombre & les trois autres cramoisis de même brodez & frangez d'or.
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1694 Flanders
1695 Namur defense
1697 Ath siege
1701 Flanders
1702.04.22 OB Geldern 3 sqn.
1702-1703 Winter quarters in Tournay 3 sqn.
1703 Carignan quarters 3 sqn.
1703 Givet quarters 3 sqn.
1703 Landau siege
1703.06.06 OB Rhine 3 sqn.
1703 Breisach siege 3 sqn.
1704.03.30 OB reserve Flanders 3 sqn.
1704.03.17 on the Meuse 3 sqn.
1704.09.11 OB Alsace under Villeroy 3 sqn.
1705 OB Mosel 3 sqn.
1705 Hagenau siege, Drusenheim, Lauterburg, île du Marquisat
1705.07.03 OB Rhine 3 sqn.
1706.08.16 Moder Lines, quarters in Froschweiler-Werth-Oberndorf-Sparsbach-Langensaltzbach
1708.11.12 Steenbrugge stations 3 sqn.
1708.05.13 Moisheim quarters 3 sqn.
1709.06.06 Merville 3 sqn.
1709.06.13 Calonne camp 3 sqn.
1709.07.24 d’Escaillon camp 3 sqn.
1709 Malplaquet battle 3 sqn.
1710.10.03 Pont Labasse camp 3 sqn.
1711 Arleux
1711.08.03 OB Alsace 3 sqn.
1712.06.27 OB sth. Germany under de Beson, camp Kehl 3 sqn.
1713.01.16 Strasbourg quarters 3 sqn.
Regiment 03 La Reine
Name:
La Reine
14.09.1673 Chevalier d’Hocquincourt (owner colonel)
31.07.1675 Vicomte d’Enonville (Jaques-René de Brizay) – „La Reine“
03.02.1685 Chevalier de Murçay (N. Nicolai)*, nephew of Mme de Maintenon + Steenkirk
01.09.1692 Marquis d’Hautefeuille (Gabriel-Étienne-Louis Texier)
26.02.1704 Marquis d’Orival
Nov. 1731 Marquis de Thibouville (N. d’Herbigny)
1791=> DR 6
* also known under the name of Chevalier de Villette
Uniform:
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1680 [Gal] red lined blue.
1690 [L&H] coat, cuffs, linings, waistcoat red, buttons white. Bonnet bag red trimmed fur. Breeches blue.
Saddlecloth red edged white.
1692 [A1B] red facings red.
1698 [Cor] red faced blue, Hat ribbons white, hatlace gold, shoulder knot blue.
1698 [Gal] red facings blue.
17xx [Fouré] Coat red, waistcoat, breeches and cloak red. Buttons, button lace and shoulder knot white.
Bonnet red lined blue lace white. Horse furniture red edged white.
1700 [Kühn] coat red, cuffs red, lining red, waistcoat red, breeches red, buttons white.
1702 [A2B] red facings red.
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[Gal] „La Reyne vêtu de rouge doublé de bleu. „
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1715 [Pajol] coat red, cloak red, breeches red, cuffs blue.
1721 [Mac Carthy-Delaistre] horse furniture: red without lace, cloak red.
1738 [Lemau]: coat and cloak red, lining, cuffs, breeches and waistcoat blue, with white laces in threes on
the two sides, buttons tin on wood with white button lace, red cap lined blue edged white, belts etc of stiched
leather, stockings white, hat edged with fine silver and black cockade, saddlecloth red edged white with the
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queen’s cypher.
Guidons:
1680 [Gal] The standards red with the arms and cyphers of the queen embroidered in gold. Three
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squadrons.
1704 [Fouré, „Les Timbales ....“] standards red, golden lilies, horizontal coat of arms. Model by Col.
MacCarthy in SCFH 1968: „rouge semé de lys d’or avec le chiffre de la Reine M.T. et au centre les
armes de Castille et de Léon chargé au centre des lis de France.“
1705 [Charrié] obverse crimson semé of fleurs-de-lys, sun and royal motto, embroidery and fringes gold
and silver. Reverse crimson semé of fleurs-de-lys in the middle a double crowned shield with the
arms of France and those of the queen Marie-Thérèse, all surrounded by a palm and laurel branch
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in silver.
17xx [Susane] The guidons of la Reine dragoons were red, the sun on the one side, the arms of the
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queen on the other, the whole embroidered and fringed in gold and silver.
1738-40 [Lemau] 4 guidon of red silk, the arms of the queen in the middle, semé of fleur-de-lys, gold and
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silver embroidery and fringes following the Royal Ordonances of 1737.

1674 Sinzheim, Ensheim, Mulhausen
1674-75 Winterquarters around Pontarlier
1675.07.23 Gamshürst, Alsace
1675 Turkheim, Altenheim, Hagenau, Saverne
1676 Kokersberg combat
1677 Freiburg siege
1678 Kinzig passage
1678 Rheinfeld, Seckingen
1678 Kehl, Lichtenberg sieges
1679 Minden
1681 Sarre camp
1683 Saône camp
1684 Luxemburg siege
1685-87 Saône camp
1688-89 Rhine
1690 Flanders, Fleurus
1692 Steinkirk + mestre de camp
1695 Ghent
1701 Rhine
1702 Friedlingen?
1702.03.21 Pavia
1702 OB Italy 3 sqn.
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[Lemau]: habit & manteau rouge, doublure, paremens, culotte & veste bleux, garnis d'agremens blancs de trois en trois des 2 cotez,
boutons d'Etaim sur bois & boutonnieres blanches, bonnet rouge doublé de bleu & bordé de blanc, ceinturon etc de peau piqué, bas
blancs, chapeau bordé d'argent fin & cocarde noire; l'equipage rouge bordé de blanc avec le chiffre de la Reine.
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[Gal]„La Reyne Les Etandarts rouges avec les Armes & Chifres de la Reyne en broderie d'or. Trois Escadrons.“
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[Charrié] Av.:cramoisi. Semis de fleurs de lys or. Soleil, devise royale. Brodé, frangé or et argent. Rv. : cramoisi. Semis de fleurs de
lys or. Au centre double écusson couronné aux armes de France et à celles de la reine Marie-Thérèse, le tout entouré de palme et
laurier argent.
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[Susane] „Les guidons de la Reine-dragons étaient rouges, le soleil d’un côté, les armes de la reine de l’autre, et semés de fleurs
de lys, le tout brodé et frangé d’or et d’argent.“
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1738 [Lemau] Ce Régiment a 4 Guidons de soye rouge, les Armes de la Reine au milieu semées de fleurs de lys brodez & frangez
en or & en argent suivant les Ordonnances du Roi de 1737.
1740 [Lemau] Ce Régiment a 4 Guidons de soye rouge, les Armes de la Reine au milieu semez de fleurs de lys brodées d'or,
frangez d'or & d'argent.
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1702 Friedlingen
1702.06.03 OB sth. Germany 3 sqn.
1702 quarters St. Jean & Saarbrücken 4 Kp}
Saargemünd 4 Kp} 3 sqn.
Bouquenom 4 Kp}
1703.04.13 OB Rhine 3 sqn.
1703.06.06 OB Rhine 3 sqn.
1703 Landau
1703-1704 Winter quarters im Alsace 3 sqn.
1704.08.13 Höchstädt (Blenheim) battle 3 sqn.
1705 Hagenau
1705 Trier occupation
1708 Oudenaarde battle 3 sqn.
1709.06.13 Calonne camp 1 sqn. – 2 sqn.
1709.06.14 Saint Pol , 15. Aubigny
1709.07.24 Aunay camp 3 sqn.
1711.06.17 L’Escaut camp 3 sqn.
1711.07.11 OB Flanders under de Coigny 3 sqn.
Regiment 04 Dauphin
Name:
Dauphin
14.09.1673 Marquis de Sauveboeuf + 1675 Coonsaarbrück, près de Trèves [Père Daniel]
29.08.1675 Comte de Longueval (François-Annibal) – „Dauphin“
May 1692 Comte d’Albert (N. de Luynes)
31.08.1700 Marquis de Wartigny (César de Brouilly) + 1704 Verrue, étant maréchal de camp [Père Daniel]
12.11.1704 Marquis de Watteville (Louis-Edmond du Fossé de La Mothe)
08.03.1718 Comte de Rions (Sicaire-Antonin-Amand-Auguste-Nicolas d’Aydie)
1791=> DR 7
Uniform:
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1680 [Gal] clothed in blue lined blue... the bonnets in blue decorated with bearskin. Three squadrons.
1680 [Guitard] coat, cuffs, waistcoat and breeches blue, lace white, buttons white. Black hat with white
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border or blue cap with white lace.
1690 [L&H] coat blue, cuffs, linings and waistcoat blue, breeches red. Saddlecloth blue edged white. Cap
blue and trimmed with fur.
1692 [A1B] blue facings blue.
1698 [Gal] blue facings red, buttons tin.
1698 [Cor] blue faced blue, hat ribbons white, hatlace silver, shoulder knot white.
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[Mercure Galant] „ .... vêtu de bleu doublé de bleu. ....; les bonnets bleus ornez de peaux d'ours. Trois Escadrons.“
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[Guitard] Justaucorps, parements, veste et culotte bleus; boutonnières blanches; boutons blancs. Chapeau noir, galon blanc ou
bonnet bleu à galon blanc (les dragons portent indifféremment le chapeau ou le bonnet).
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1700 [Kühn 5] coat red, cuffs blue, lining blue, waistcoat red, breeches red, buttons white.
1702 [A2B] blue facings blue.
17xx [Kannik] shabraque blue.
1715 [Pajol] coat blue, cloak blue, breeches blue, cuffs blue.
17xx [Fouré] cap blue, lined blue, edged white (no bearskins). Horse furniture red edged white.
1721 [Mac Carthy-Delaistre] horse furniture blue without a border, cloak blue.
1721 [Delaistre] coat blue, cuffs blue, linings blue, waiscoat blue, breeches blue, buttons white, lace
white, aiguillette white, cap blue lined blue with white lace and tassle, neckcloth?, cloak blue lined
blue, shabraque blue without border.
1738 [Lemau] coat, cloak, lining, cuffs, breeches and waistcoat blue with white laces in groups of three on
both sides, buttons fashioned in tin, cap all blue edged white, belts etc of stichedt leather, white
stockings, hat edged with fine silver and black cockade, horse furniture blue edged white with the
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cypher of the Dauphin.
Musiciens (tambours & hautbois): royal livery in blue with red cuffs, red lace with white chain.
Guidons:
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1680 [Gal] The standards blue semé of fleurs de lys and dolphins in gold. Three squadrons.
1675-> [Charrié] Obverse and reverse identical, semé of fleur-de-lys and dolphins, in the centre the golden
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sun, fringed in gold and silver.
1715 [Fouré] Guidons always blue, front and back semé of rows of fleurs-de-lys and rows of dolphins
alternating. On the face the sun with the motto Nec pluribus Impar and on the other the arms of the
Dauphin with the motto In pericula ludunt.
1738 [Lemau] This regiment has 4 guidons of blue silk semé of fleurs de lys and delphins with a sun in the
middle embroidered in gold and silver an fringed the same, according to the Royal ordonnances of
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1737.
1756 [HKFS] Standards blue, golden lilies & dolphins alternating. Obvers: sun and „Nec pluribus impar“,
Reverse „In pericula ludunt“
Note that only the descriptions for the later period mention the sun and mottos on the guidon.

1673 Sarrebourg taken
1674 Seneffe battle
1674 Dinant, Huy, Limburg sieges
1674 Rodemack ambush
1675 Consaarbrück combat + mestre de camp
1675 Trier defense
1676 Condé, Bouchain, Aire sieges
1677 Valenciennes taken, Cassel, Saint-Omer
1678 Ghent, Ypres, Saint-Denis
1681 Sarre camp
1682 Sarre camp
1683 Saône camp
1685 Saône camp
1686 Savoy frontier observation
1689 Flanders, Walcourt combat
1691 Leuze
1692 Namur, Steinkirk
1693 Heidelberg
1695 Namur garrison, defense
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[Lemau] habit, manteau, doublure, paremens, culotte & veste bleux garnis d'agremens blancs de trois en trois des deux cotez, boutons d'Etaim
façonnez, bonnet tout bleu bordé de blanc, ceinturon etc de peau piqué, bas blancs, chapeau bordé d'argent fin & cocarde noire; l'equipage bleu bordé
de blanc avec le chiffre de Monseigneur le Dauphin.
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[Gal]„Les Etandarts bleus semez de fleurs de lys & des dauphins d'or; ... Trois Escadrons.“
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1680 [Charrié] : Av.: bleu. Semis de fleurs de lys et dauphins or. Brodé, frangé or et argent. Rv. : identique. „Avers et revers
identiques: semis de fleurs de lis et de dauphins or, au centre le soleil or, franges or et argent.“
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1738 [Lemau] Ce Régiment a 4 Guidons de soye bleue semez de fleurs de lys & de Dauphins avec un Soleil au milieu brodéz en
or & en argent & frangez de même suivant les Ordonnances du Roi de 1737.
1740 [Lemau] Ce Régiment a 4 Guidons de soye bleue semez de fleurs de lys & de Dauphins avec un Soleil au milieu & devise
latine in periculo ludunt, brodéz en or & en argent & frangez de même.
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1696-98 Meuse
1702 OB Italy
1702 Luzzara combat (all captains and 300 dragoons killed)
1702.03.21 Cremona garrison
1702.03.30 Lamoze quarters (name unclear?)
1702 Santa-Vittoria
1702.04.06-04.11 Monticelli quarters
1702.05.01 OB Italy
1703.05.19 Bastiglia station 3 sqn.
1703.05.19 OB Italy 3 sqn.
1703-1704 stationed near Mortara-Novara in Piémont
1703 San Benedetto combat
1703 Asti occupation
1704 Verrua – not before 26.01.04 in winter quarters there + mestre de camp
1704 Ivrea, OB Piémont 3 sqn.
1704 Vercelli siege
1704 Trino entrenchments, storm 3 sqn.
1704 OB nth. Italy under Vendôme 3 sqn.
1705.03.18 Sezze-Castelazzo Winter quarters 3 sqn.
1705.04.15 Acqui quarters 3 sqn.
1705.06.03 OB Piémont 3 sqn.
1705 Cassano
1706 OB Piémont 3 sqn.
1706 Turin
1707 Saint Maurice camp 3 sqn.
1707 Sablons camp 3 sqn.
1707.10.26 Aiguebelle quarters 3 sqn.
1708.06.08 Maurienne quarters (Savoy) 3 sqn.
1709 Embrune 3 sqn.
1709.07 . Aiguebelle 3 sqn.
1710 OB south. France 3 sqn.
1710.09.18 Conflans camp 3 sqn.
1710.10.16 Labadie-Tour quarters 3 sqn.
1710.10.24 OB Roussillon 3 sqn.
1710.12. OB on the Ter 3 sqn.
1711.07. Ecellas camp 3 sqn.
1712 OB Dauphiné 3 sqn.
1712.07.13 In the hills at Burdoneche-Cézanne 3 sqn.
1713.06.02-05 OB Alsace 3 sqn.
1713 Landau siege 3 sqn.
Regiment 05 Grammont, Payssac, Listenois, Beauffremont
Name:
14.09.1673 Marquis de Listenois (N. de Beauffremont) + battaile d’Ensheim [Père Daniel]
14.11.1674 Marquis de Listenois (N. de Beauffremont) „Marquis de Listenois frère“
30.08.1685 Comte de Grammont (Jean-Ferdinand)*
03.01.1696 Marquis de Payssac
20.05.1699 Marquis de Listenois (Jaques-Antoine de Beauffremont) „Marquis de Listenois neveu“ + Aire
01.11.1710 Marquis de Beauffremont (Louis-Bénige)
04.12.1730 Prince de Beauffremont (Louis)
1791=> DR 9
* According to Sourches, the comte de Grammont, a gentleman of Franche Comté, took
over the regiment of Listenois on the death of the marquis, having previously been its
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lieutenant colonel.
Uniform:
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[Sourches, III] Gentilhomme de Franche-Comté, lequel, à la mort du marquis de Listenois, avoit eu son régiment de dragons, dont il
était lieutenant colonel.
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1680 [Gal] clothed in isabelle lined blue, bonnets the same decorated with blue plush and silver laces.
1680 facings blue.
1690 [L&H] (Grammont Royal) coat and breeches red, cuffs, linings, cap-bag, waistcoat isabelle, buttons,
buttonhole lace and shoulderknot white. Shabraque isabelle with white edge and a stripe in the
Grammont livery according to [Condray].
1692 [A1B]: red with facings and waistcoat ventre-de-biche . Bonnet red with bag ventre-de-biche
Breeches red, buttons, buttonlace and soulderknot white. Saddlecloth ventre-de-biche edged white.
1698 [Gal]: red, facings?
1698 [Cor]: red faced yellow, hat ribbons black, hatlace white, shoulder and sword knot yellow. (Was
isabelle interpreted as yellow?)
1699 [Fouré, Golberg] Tamours isabelle, facings blue, silver lace, buttons silver, waistcoat blue, breeches
blue. Drum white/blue, edge blue (probably).
1700 [Leleipvre] coat brown (feuillemorte?), cuffs blue, lining blue, waistcoat blue, breeches brown,
buttons and lace white, cap blue lined brown, white aiguillette and sash around waist. Shabraque
brown edged white. Musician identical. (Curious, since it disagrees with the other descriptions or,
was his brown meant to be interpreted as ventre de biche? Then it would conform.)
1700 [Kühn 6] coat red, cuffs red, lining red, waistcoat buff, breeches red, buttons white.
1715 [Pajol] coat red, cloak red, breeches red, cuffs ??.
1721 [MacCarthy-Delaistre] horse furniture ventre de biche (=isabelle), cloak red, officers with double
silver lace, dragoons with a white lace.
1721 [Delaistre] coat red, cuffs red, lining red, waistcoat ventre de biche, breeches ventre de biche,
buttons white, lace none, aiguillettes white, neckcloth black or white, hat with white border, cloak red
lined red, shabraque ventre de biche with white border.
1738 [Lemau] coat, cloak, lining, cuffs, waistcoat and breeches red, buttons tin on tarred wood, bonnet all
red edged white, belts stiched white, stockings white, hat edged thin white with black cockade, horse
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furniture red edged white with the regimental cypher.
1735 [HKFS & Kannik] red, waistcoat, cap-bag isabelle
If you accept that “ventre de biche” is only another way of writing “isabelle” then the uniform remained the
same for a long time. Interesting to note that the musicians’ livery of 1721 corresponds to the early uniform.
Guidons:
1680 [Gal] Standards blue with the sun and the motto of the king. Three squadrons.
1721 [Delaistre] guidon blue strewn with gold/red vair, in the middle the arms of Beauffremont in a
crowned shield held by two angles and surmounted with a ribbon with the motto DIEU AYDE AU
PREMIER CHRETIEN.
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1730 [Lemau] « bells of gold on red ground ». Does ground mean the coat of arms or the flag.
1738 [Lemau] This regiment has 4 guidons of red ? ? silk, golden sun in the middle embroidered and
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fringed in gold according to the Royal Ordonances of 1737. Here red does mean the guidon.
1740 [Lemau] This regiment has 4 guidons of blue silk charged with a sun in gold and the royal motto in
gold on one side, the other with gold/red vair and the slogan of the house of Bauffremont dieu aide
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au premier chretien, embroidered and fringed in gold.
1756 [HKFS] Standards blue, sun, coat of arms de Beauffremont.
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[Lemau] habit, manteau, doublure, paremens, veste & culotte rouges, boutons d'Etain sur bois gaudronez, bonnet tout rouge bordé
de blanc, ceinturon etc de peau piqué de blanc, bas blancs, chapeau bordé d'argent fin & cocarde noire; l'equipage rouge bordé de
blanc avec le chiffre du Regiment.
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[Lemau] « cloches d’or sur fond rouges ».
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[Lemau] Ce Régiment a 4 Guidons de soye rouge, Soleil d'or au milieu brodé en or & frangez d'or suivant les Ordonnances du Roi
de 1737.
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[Lemau] Ce Régiment a 4 Guidons de soye bleue chargez d'un Soleil d'or & devise du Roi en or d'un côté & de l'autre vairé d'or & de
gueles, avec le cri de la Maison de Bauffremont dieu aide au premier chretien, brodez & frangez d'or.
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1674 Franche-Comté
1675 Meuse, Dinant, Huy, Limburg sieges
1676 Flanders, Boucain, Aire sieges
1677 Valenciennes, Cambrai sieges
1678 Ghent, Ypres sieges
1678 Saint-Denis battle
1681 Strasbourg
1681-83 Sarre camp
1686 Mans
1688 Rhine, Philippsburg, Mannheim, Frankenthal
1688-89 Winterquarters at Florainville
1689 Walcourt combat, Mainz siege
1690 Italy under Catinat
1690-91 Rhine, Moselle
1693 Moselle
1694 Flanders
1694-95 Winterquarters in Luxemburg
1695 Namur defense
1697 Meuse
1702 Saarlouis quarters 3 sqn.
1703 OB Rhine 3 sqn.
1703 Kehl siege
1703 Stollhofen Linien combat
1703 Münderkirchen combat
1703 Höchstädt combat
1703 Kempten taken
1703 Augsburg taken
1704 Schellenberg defense 3 sqn.
1704.08.13 Höchstädt (Blenheim) battle 3 sqn.
1704 OB sth. Germany under Marsin 3 sqn.
1704-1705 Winter quarters in Monheim-Mutzig-Obernheim
1705 OB Moselle 3 sqn.
1705.07.03 OB Rhine 3 sqn.
1706.08.16 Moder lines station Hatten-Rittershofen-Bühl-Oberiedern quarters
1706 Drüsenheim, Lauterburg, île du Marquisat combat
1708.10.08 Brugge camp 3 sqn.
1708 OB Rhine 3 sqn.
1708.05.13 Wolxheim quarters 3 sqn.
1709 Malplaquet battle
1710.09.12 Aire garrison & defense Clef (mestre de camp +) 3 sqn.
1711.07.11 OB Flanders under de Coigny as Listenoys 3 sqn.
1712 Le Quesnoy
1712.04.15 Landrecies-Cambrai camp
1712 Douai
1712 Douai siege
1712 Le Quesnoy siege
1713.06.2-5 OB Alsace 3 sqn.
1713 Freiburg
1714 Saône camp
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Regiment 06 Barbezières, d’Estrades, Bellisle, Bonnelles
Name:
14.09.1673 Chevalier de Fimarcon (Jacques de Cassagnet de Tilladet) + Saint-Denis, près de Mons [Père
Daniel]
20.08.1678 Marquis de Barbezières (Charles-Louis de Chémerault)
10.08.1692 d’Estrades, Comte de (Godefroy-Louis)
11.01.1705 Belle-Isle, Comte de (Charles-Louis-Auguste Fouquet)
05.07.1709 Bonnelles, Chevalier de (N. de Bullion)
1727 Marquis d’Armenonville (N. Fleuriau)
1791=> 2e Chasseurs
Uniform:
1680 [Gal] dressed in red lined isabelle, bonnets red with a twist or „tortil“ of silver lace forming Turkish
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caps. Two squadrons.
1680 [Fouré] Cloak probably red, waistcoat and breeches probably isabelle, buttons and buttonlace white,
as is shoulderknot.
1698 [Gal]: red with isabelle facings, lace white.
1700 [Kühn 7] coat red, cuffs red, lining red, waistcoat isabelle, breeches red, buttons white.
1700 [Condray] coat red, cuffs, waistcoat, lining green, buttons white, musicians wings and trim white,
turban red, bag white, shabraque red with white border with red zig-zag pattern.
1705 [Susane] They were allowed to keep the „sabres“ they captured from three regiments of cuirassiers
they ambushed. (But cuirassiers had broadswords, Pallasche, not sabres – Fouré says that they
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were hussar sabers, which sounds more likely.)
1712 [AN]: coat red, cuffs red, lining red, waistcoat red, breeches red, neckcloth black, buttons white,
cloak red, gaiters white, sabre cords green/black. Drummer coat orange, cuffs red, silk livery lace
(colours?).
1715 [Pajol]: coat red, cloak red, breeches red but cuffs other than red (= isabelle?).
1715 [Susane] „Under Louis XIV and Louis XV it had the following costume: coat, cloak, linings, cuffs,
waistcoats and breeches red, buttons fashioned in tin, bonnet red, lined red and edged white,
stockings white, hat edged white, cockade black, horse furniture red edged white with the regimental
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cypher.“
1720 cuffs Isabelle.??
1721 [MacCarthy-Delaistre] horse furniture: red without border, cloak red.
1721 [Delaistre] coat red, cuffs red, lining red, waistcoat red, breeches red, buttons white, thin white lace
on buttonholes, aiguillettes white, neckcloth black, cloak red, shabraque red without border.
1738 [Lemau] coat, cloak, lining, cuffs, waistcoat and breeches red, buttons shaped in tin, cap all red with
white lace, belts etc leather stiched white, stockings white, hat bordered with thin silver lace and
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black cockade, horse furniture red edged white with the regimental cypher.
1756 [HKFS] red, lace and buttons white.
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[Gal] „vêtu de rouge doublé d'isabelle; les bonnets rouges avec un tortil de galon d'argent qui faisoit les bonnets a la Turque. Deux
Escadrons.“
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[Susane] Chargé d’observer les Impériaux au delà du Pô, Bellisle-dragons surprend un camp de trois régiments de cuirassiers et
fait plus de 300 prisonniers, dont 27 officiers. En récompense de cet exploit, le régiment fut autorisé à échanger ses sabres contre ceux
qu’il avait si glorieusement conquis, et l’usage de ce sabre particulier, à fourreau en cuivre et à poignée en fer poli, s’est conservé
jusqu’à la fin de l’empire dans le 2e chasseurs.
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[Susane] „Il avait eu sous Louis XIV et Louis XV le costume suivant : habit, manteau, doublure, parements, veste et culotte rouges,
boutons d’étain façonnés, bonnet rouge, doublé de rouge et bordé de blanc, bas blancs, chapeau bordé d’argent, cocarde noire,
équipage rouge bordé de blanc, avec le chiffre du régiment.“
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[Lemau] habit, manteau, doublure, paremens, veste & culotte rouges, boutons d'Etain façonnez, bonnet tout rouge bordé de blanc,
ceinturon etc de peau piqué de blanc, bas blancs, chapeau bordé d'argent fin & cocarde noire; l'equipage rouge bordé de blanc avec le
chiffre du Regiment.
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Contract of 11.12.1712 [AN]:

385 bordes de Chapeaux de gallon d’argent
Les gallons d’argent qu’il conviendra pour les brigadiers
Les gallons d’argent qui feront necessaires pour les carabiniers
Les gallons d’argent qu’il conviendra pour border les housses des Messieurs les officiers
Les gallons d’argent qui seront necessaires pour Vnze (onze) tambours
Plus les gallons de soye qu’il conviendra pour les tambours
Les gallons de laine pour les bonnets
Les huoppes des bonnets au lain qu’il conviendra
385 bourses de rattistoir ? noir
Pareil nombre des Cravattes de Voille noir a Relequises ?
Pareil nombre de Coquardes de ruban noir
385 paires de guetres blancs
1155 de gros boutons d’estain
950 douzaines de petits boutons d’estain
385 cordons de sabre de laine verte et noir
48 garnitures et gros boutons d’argent pour les vestes pour les sieurs officiers
48 garnitures de petits boutons d’argent pour les vestes
(+ 385 aunes de ruban noir pour les cadenitits ?)
Contract of 12.12.1712 [AN] :

902 deux aunes de drap de Romorantin rouge
1347 aunes d’Aumalle rouge
480 aunes de drap rouge pour manteaux
132 ½ aunes d’aumalle rouge
962 aulnes de Mouye rouge
31 ½ aune de Serge de St. Lo orange
21 ¼ aunes de Drap rouge
198 aunes de drap Ecarlatte des gobelines tinture foncé
376 aunes d’aumalle ecarlatte
Guidons:
Arms of Estrades [Fouré] „a silver lion lying under a golden palm tree and on a silver ground the whole on a
field of red“. Note the similarity of this coat of arms with the device on the guidon of Houdetot (1705/14).
1705-09, 1712-14: Charrié] : red with sun and mottor, embroidery and fringes gold, reverse red with arms of
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Fouquet.
17xx [Susane] red with the sun and the motto, embroidered and fringed in gold.
1738-40 [Lemau] 4 guidons of red silk the sun in gold in the middle, embroidered and fringed gold according
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to the Royal Ordonances of 1737.
1756 [HKFS] Standards red, sun.

1678 Saint-Denis battle (colonel killed)
1681 Sarre camp
1684 Meuse, Luxemburg
1685-88 Meuse
1689 Flanders
1689 Mont-Royal, Mainz support operations
1690 Becktigheim ?
1692 Flanders, Steinkirk, Charleroi
1693-97 Flanders
1701 Carpi, Chiari combat
1702.03.21 OB Italy
1702 Luzzara combat
1702 Cremona defense
1702 Santa Vittoria combat
1702 Guastalla siege
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1705-09, 1712-14: [Charrié] : rouge soleil, devise. Brodé, frangé or. Rv.: rouge. Armes des Fouquet.
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1738 [Lemau] Ce régiment a 4 Guidons de soye rouge, Soleil d'or au milieu brodé en or & frangez d'or suivant les Ordonnances du
Roi de 1737.
1740 [Lemau] Ce Régiment a 4 Guidons de soye rouge, devise du Roi en or brodez & frangez d'or.
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1702 Borgoforte taken

1702.03.30 Ponte Nure quarters
1702.04.06 San Nazzaro quarters
1702.04.11 Casal, Pusterlengo quarters
1702.05.01 OB Italy
1703 early OB Italy 3 sqn.
1703.05.19 OB Italy 3 sqn.
1703-1704 Winter quarters – missing in the quarter lists of Piémont
1703 OB Lombardy 2 sqn.
1704 early OB Lombardy 2 sqn.
1704 Vercelli siege
1704 Ivrea siege
1704 mid OB Lombardy 3 sqn.
1704.04.25 OB Lombardy 3 sqn.
1704-1705 Winter quarters in Desenzano 3 sqn.
1705 Desenzano quarters 3 sqn.
1705 Verrua siege
1705 Cassano battle
1705 Trucazzano quarters 3 sqn.
1705-1706 Winter quarters in Valeggio 3 sqn.
1705-1706 On the Po combat against camp of 3 Imperial cav. regt.
1706.04.19 Calcinato battle 3 sqn.
1706 Castiglione combat
1706 Turin siege on foot
1706 Turin battle
1706 Canal Blanc at Bussolengo station 3 sqn.
1707 Lauffen combat
1708 Lille defense 3 sqn.
1710.05.15 Cambrai camp (Bannette) 3 sqn.
1710.11.17 On the Meuse 3 sqn.
1710-1711 Winter quarters in Bamier (Bonnette) 3 sqn.
1712 Denain
1713.06.2/5 OB Alsace 3 sqn.
Regiment 07 Mestre de Camp Général
Name:
Mestre de Camp Général
Mestres de camp généraux
25.03.1674 Comte de Tessé (René de Froulay)
1685 Mestre de Camp Général
29.08.1692 Comte de Mailly (Louis)
11.03.1696 Duc de Guiche (Antoine de Gramont)
25.03.1703 Marquis d’Hautefeuille (Gabriel-Étienne-Louis Texier)
05.07.1709 Comte de Bellisle (Louis-Fouquet)
June 1736 Duc de Chevreuse (Marie-Charles-Louis d’Albert de Luynes)
1791=> DR 10
Uniform:
1674 [Chartrand] Tessé yellow faced red.
1680 [Gal] Tessé clothed in yellow lined red. The bonnets yellow with bearskin fur, a sun in glittering gold
embroidery on the forehead of each bonnet with the white lace in the style of the Polacres. [Fouré]
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Waistcoat and breeches probably red, buttons white and cloak probably yellow.
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[Gal, Stenay]„vêtu de jaune doublé de rouge. Les bonnets jaunes avec des peaux d'ours; un soleil en broderie de Moire d'or sur le
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1690 [L&H] coat and breeches red, cuffs, linings, cap-bag, waistcoat blue, buttons, buttonhole lace and
shoulderknot white. Shabraque blue with white edge.
1692 [A1B] red faced blue.
1698 [Gal] red faced ?
1698 [Cor]: red faced red, cap edged silver with white ribbons, shoulderknot white.
1700 [Kühn 2] coat red, cuffs blue, lining blue, waistcoat red, breeches red, buttons white.
1702 [A2B] red faced blue.
1690, 1692, 1715 Waistcoat with silver lace.
1715 [Pajol] coat red, cloak red, breeches red, cuffs blue.
1721 [MacCarthy-Delaistre] horse furniture: red, the shabraque without lace, pistol cover on the left with
white lace and edging.
1721 [Delaistre] coat red, cuffs red, lining red, waistcoat blue, breeches, blue or red, buttons white, lace
white, cap red with red bag laced white with white tassle, cloak red lined red, pistol covers red
bordered white.
1738 [Lemau] coat, cloak, lining, cuffs, waistcoat and breeches red, buttons tin on wood and white button
lace, cap all red bordered white, belts etc. leather stiched white, stockings white, hat with thin silver
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border and black cockade, horsefurniture red edged white with the Royal cypher.
Guidons:
1680 [Gal] The standards white with these words in gold embroidery: victoria pinget. Two squadrons.
1704 [Fouré, „Timbales..“ after Spofforth] Standards blue with golden lilies, motto horizontal „Victoria
Pinget“, reverse white with golden lilies.
1706 [Charrié] obverse blue semé of fleurs-de-lys in gold, sun and motto, embroidery and fringes gold,
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reverse: white, ribbon with Victoria pinget embroidered in gold.
17xx [Susane] „The guidons of Mestre de camp général were white on one side and blue on the other.
On the white face was seen the device Victoria pinget; on the blue face, semé of fleurs-de-lys, a sun
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was embroidered, all in gold“.
1738-40 [Lemau] This regiment has 4 guidons of silk doubled blue and white, the blue is semé of fleurs-de-
lys embroidered in gold and on the white side the word are written victoria pinget, embroidered and
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fringed in gold.

1674 Roussillon, Saint-Jean de Pagès, Morillas
1675-76 Pyrenees border
1677 June under Crequi
1677 Freiburg taken
1677-78 Winterquarters in Franch Comté
1678 Rheinfeld, Seckingen combats, Kinzig passage
1678 Kehl, Lichtenberg taken
1679 Sarre camp
1681 Sarre camp
1681 Sept. Casale occupation, Piedmont
1683 Saône camp
1685 Kinzig camp
1686 Dauphiné
devant de la teste de chaque bonnet avec l'aigrete blanche mise à la façon des Polacres.“
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1738 [Lemau]habit, manteau, doublure, paremens, veste & culotte rouges, boutons d'Etain sur bois & boutonnieres blanches,
bonnet tout rouge bordé de blanc, ceinturon etc de peau piqué de blanc, bas blancs, chapeau bordé d'argent fin & cocarde noire;
l'equipage rouge bordé de blanc avec le chiffre du Roi.
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1706 [Charrié] Av.: bleu. Semis de fleurs de lys or. Soleil, devise. Brodé, frangé d’or. Rv.: blanc. Banderole avec Victoria pinget.
Brodé or.
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17xx [Susane] „Les guidons de Mestre de camp général étaient blancs d’un côté et bleus de l’autre. Sur la face blanche, on lisait
la devise Victoria pinget; sur la face bleue, semée de fleurs de lys, était brodé un soleil, le tout en or“.
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1738 [Lemau] Ce Régiment a 4 Guidons de soye blanche & devise, victoria pinget au milieu, semez de fleurs de lys d'or brodées
en or & frangez d'or suivant les Ordonnances du Roi de 1737.
1740 [Lemau] Ce Régiment a 4 Guidons de soye à double fond bleu & blanc, le bleu est semé de fleurs de lys brodées en or & sur
le blanc est écrit ces mots : victoria pinget, brodez & frangez d'or.
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1688-89 Palatine
1691 Flanders, Leuze combat
1691 Quarters at Sedan => Italy
1691 Villefranche, Nice, Veillane attack
1693-96 Rhine
1697 La Lys, Ath siege
1702.04.22 OB Geldern 3 sqn.
1702.09.28 OB Flanders
1702 Nijmegen
1702-1703 Winter quarters in Valenciennes
1703 Eckeren combat
1703 stations on the Meuse 3 sqn.
1703 Landau
1703 Speyerbach
1704 early Malmédy, Mousson, march to Namur 3 sqn.
1704.08.13 Höchstädt (Blenheim) battle, taken prisoner 3 sqn.
1706.07.04 Virvoet camp 2 sqn. = 360 M.
1706.08.19 untere Deute camp 3 sqn.
1707.06.25 Gembleurs camp 3 sqn.
1708.11.12 Steenbrugge station 2 sqn.
1709.06.13 Bouchain quarters 2 sqn.
1709.07.24 Saint Sauve camp 3 sqn.
1710.07.26 quarters in Hatten-Rittershofen-Kuhlendorf together with Bretagne
1710.11.01 ditto
1711.06.28 Hagenbach camp 3 sqn.
1711.07.14 Yockenum camp 3 sqn.
1711.07.27 Salbach-Langschleithal camp 3 sqn.
1711.06.27 OB sth. Germany under de Beson camp Kehl 3 sqn.
1713.06.2-5 OB Alsace 3 sqn.
1713.09.18 Reschweg quarters 3 sqn.
Regiment 08 Peysonnel, Gaubert, Albert, Vidame, Du Heron
Name:
08.12.1674 de Saint-Sandoux (Antoine de Ribière) + Pays-Bas [Père Daniel]
08.01.1679 de Peysonnel ou Peissonnel [Choppin]
13.03.1690 Gaubert, Marquis de Gobert [Choppin]*
04.03.1700 Chevalier d’Albert (N. d’Albert d’Ailly de Chaulnes + Charpi)
17.07.1701 Vidame d’Amiens (Louis-Auguste d’Albert d’Ailly, brother of above)
09.03.1702 Du Héron, Marquis (+ Calcinato)
June 1705 de Bourneuf, + Adige, Marquis du Bourneuf [Choppin] **
13.06.1706 de Vassé, Marquis de
31.05.1710 Espinay, Marquis d‘ (François-Rodrigue Deshayes)
10.03.1734 Vibraye, Marquis de (Paul-Maximilian Hurault)
1791 DR 11
*On 18.03.1690 the king received the news of the death of M. de Peysonnel,
Brigadier of dragoons, and at once gave his regiment to M. de Gobert, a soldier
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of fortune who had been its lieutenant48colonel and passed the lt.-colonelcy on
to M.thde Bourgneuf who had been major. th
On 24 May 1706 the marquis de Héron died of wounds received on the 6 of the
month at Castiglione
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and his regiment was given to the lieutenant-colonel,
Bourgneuf.
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**On 1 June 1706 Bourgneuf, meanwhile colonel and brigadier, lost a leg carried
off by a cannon ball while visiting posts along the Adige. He died of the wound
six days later and the king gave the regiment to his kinsman the marquis de
Vassé and, in turn, the regiment of Vassé to the Chevalier de Pourrières,
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brigadier of dragoons, who had been lieutenant-colonel of Bourgneuf.
Uniform:
1680 [Guitard] Red faced green, buttons and lace silver. Cloak red.
1680 [Gal] Clothed in red lined green. The bonnet red decorated with bearskin and fastened with silver
buttonlaces. [Fouré] Waistcoats and breeches green, cloak red, buttons, buttonlace and
shoulderknots white.
1700 [Fouré, suggested] Bonnet with red bag lined green, white laces, coat and breeches red, buttonlace
and shoulderknot white, waistcoat red or green. Saddlecloth red or green edged white.
1700 [Kühn 8] coat red, cuffs green, lining green, waistcoat green, breeches red, buttons white.
1715 [Pajol] coat red, cloak red, breeches red, cuffs green, lace white.
1720 cap red, bag green, breeches red. Shabraque green, edge white.
1721 [MacCarthy-Delaistre] horse furniture red without lace, cloak red.
1721 [Delaistre] coat red, cuffs green, lining green, waistcoat paille, breeches paille/red, buttons white, no
lace, aiguillettes white, neckcloth black/white, hat with white lace, cloak red lined red, shabraque red
without lace.
1735 [HKFS] Coat, breeches, cuffs, cap-bag, red. Waistcoat, cap blue. Lace and buttons white.
Shabraque blue, edge white.
1738 [Lemau] coat, cloak and breeches red, cuffs and waistcoat green, buttons tin, buttonlace white, cap
red lined green and laced white, belts etc. leather stitched white, stockings white, hat edged with thin
white lace and black cockade, horse furniture green edged white with the regimental cypher.
Guidons:
1680 [Gal] The standards green with embroidery of flames and flashes of gold with the motto of the king
and the sun (on one side) and that of the colonel on the other. According to Fouré there were also
two exploding bombs. Two squadrons.
17xx [Susane] green, general model.
1738 [Lemau] this regiment has 4 guidons of green silk the sun in the middle, embroidery gold and fringes
gold following the Royal Ordonances of 1737.
1740 [Lemau] this regiment has 4 guidons of red silk the Royal device in gold, the reverse two crowns of
laural joining together on a blue ground and these words PRO GEMINO CERTAMINE, embroidered
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and fringed in gold.
It would appear that the regiment changed its guidons from green to red/blue under the Marquis de Vibraye
in 1734. Mouillard gives the 1740 version and shows blue as facing colour for 1737.
1756 [HKFS] Standards red, sun.
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[Sourches,III] Le 18/03/1690, on apprit la mort de M. de Peyssonel, brigadier de dragons; et le Roi donna sur-le-champ son
régiment à M. de Gobert (c‘étoit un soldat de fortune), qui en étoit lieutenant colonel, et la lieutenance colonelle à M. de Bourgneuf, qui
en étoit major.
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24/5/1706 Paris Le Regiment de Dragons du Marquis de Heron, mort de blessures le 6 du mois à Castiglione, a été donné à Mr de
Bourneuf qui en étoit Lieutenant Colonel.
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[Sourches, X] Le 1er juin 1706, Bourgneuf, brigadier et colonel de dragons, avoit eu la jambe emportée d‘un coup de canon en
visitant les postes le long de l‘Adige. Le 12 juin : mort de sa blessure. Le Roi donna son régiment à son gendre, le marquis de Vassé et
le régiment de Vassé au chevalier de Pourrières, brigadier de dragons, qui étoit lieutenant-colonel de Bourgneuf.
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1738 [Lemau] :Ce Régiment a 4 Guidons de soye verte, Soleil d'or au milieu brodé en or & frangez d'or suivant les Ordonnances
du Roi de 1737.
1740 [Lemau] Ce Régiment a 4 Guidons de soye rouge, devise du Roi en or, au revers deux couronnes de laurier jointes ensemble
sur fond bleu & ces mots PRO GEMINO CERTAMINE brodez & frangez d'or.
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1674-77 Tournai garrison
1677 Saint-Ghislain siege then garrison
1684 Sarre, Moselle, Rhine
1688 Sarre, Moselle, Rhine
1692 Heidenheim combat
1695 Rhine, Philippsburg, Schwetzingen
1701.07.09 Carpi combat – Colonel +
1702.03.21 OB Italy
1702.05.01 OB Italy
1702 Luzzara combat
1703.05.19 OB Italy 3 sqn.
1703.11.30 Winter quarters in Colosso
1703-1704 Winter quarters in Montemagno, from 26.01.1704 also in Viarigio (?) Piémont
1704 early Montemagno 3 sqn.
1704 OB Piémont, Reserve 3 sqn.
1704 Tricerro occupation 3 sqn.
1704 Ivrea siege
1704 Vercelli siege 3 sqn.
1704 Monferrat camp 3 sqn.
1704.10.15 Verrua siege 3 sqn.
1705.03.18 Masserano quarters 3 sqn.
1705 Cassano
1705-1706 Winter quarters in Valeggio 3 sqn.
1706.04.18 OB Italy 3 sqn.
1706 Turin
1706.09.09 Castiglione battle 3 sqn.
1706 Canal Blanc-Bussolengo stations 3 sqn.
1708 OB Flanders, reserve 3 sqn.
1708 Oudenaarde battle (destroyed) 3 sqn.
1708.10.07 Saint Jooris & Aletere camp 3 sqn.
1708.11.12 Bellem stations 3 sqn.
1709.06.13 Valenciennes garrison 3 sqn.
1710-1711 Winter quarters in Petit-Campigneuilles 3 sqn.
1712.04.15 Landrecies-Cambrai camp 3 sqn.
1712 Denain combat
1713 Freiburg
Regiment 09 La Lande, Verac, Caylus
Name:
01.01.1675 du Fay (Charles)
16.03.1678 Marquis de La Lande (Jean-Baptiste du Deffant)
08.04.1696 Marquis de Vérac(César de Saint-Georges)
1706 Chevalier de Vérac (N. de Saint-Georges)
29.03.1710 Comte de Caylus (Anne- Claude Philippe)
1716 Comte de Beaucourt
1788 3e Chasseurs à cheval
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Uniform:
1680 [Gal] dressed in yellow lined red as for Tessé. The bonnets yellow with red plush, fastened with
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silver buttonlace.
1700 [Kühn 9] coat red, cuffs blue, lining blue, waistcoat blue, breeches red, buttons white.
1715 shabraque yellow, edge white.
1715 [Pajol]: red coat, red cloak, red breeches red other parts of a different colour to the uniform (blue?).
1715 [Guitard] red with yellow cuffs. The date of the change of uniform is not known.
1720 [Delaistre (Sabretache)] justaucorps red, waistcoat and breeches chamois
1721 [MacCarthy-Delaistre] horse furniture: red without lace, cloak red.
1721 [Delaistre] coat red, cuffs dark green, waistcoat chamois, breeches chamois/red, buttons white, thin
white buttonlace, aiguillette white, neckcloth white, hat with white lace and black cockade, cloak red
lined red, shabraque red with thin white lace. [Fouré- One may expect that the colour chamois was
given in 1710 by the colonel Caylus.]
1735 [HKFS] coat, breeches, cap-bag red, cuffs, waistcoat, linings blue, buttons white. Shabraque red,
edge white.
1738 [Lemau] coat, cloak and breeches red, lining, cuffs and waistcoat blue, buttons tin and buttonlace
white, red cap lined blue and laced white, belts etc. leather stitched white, stockings white, hat
edged with thin white border and black cockade, horse furniture red edged white with the regimental
cypher.
Guidons:
1676-96 [Charrié] Obverse yellow, sun and motto, embroidered and fringed gold. Reverse red, arms
of the colonel. Banderole with the motto SEDENT IN FORTI.
1680 [Gal] Standards yellow on one side and red on the other, with the sun and the royal motto and that of
the colonel on the other side. Two squadrons. [Fouré] Colonel’s device probably on the yellow side,
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red being the colour preferred by the king. The embroidery was probably white as for the buttons.
1680 [Golberg] Standards yellow with owner’s arms, fringes silver, other side red with sun and „Nec
pluribus impar“.
1711-16 [Charrié]: Obverse blue, sun and motto, embroidery and fringes gold. Reverse blue, devices
unknown.
1740 [Lemau] This regiment has 4 guidons of blue silk with the Royal devices in gold, the reverse has a
cock embroidered in silver with the arms of l’Hopital-Vitry and these words: vigil & audax,
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embroidery and fringes gold.
1756 [HKFS] Standards blue, sun gold.

1675-76 Philippsburg garrison, defense
1676-80 Breisach garrison
1681 Saône camp, Casal occupation
1682 Orange occupation
1685-87 Saône camp
1688 Rhine, Philippsburg siege
1688 Mannheim, Frankenthal occupation
1689 Mainz defense
1690 Piémont under Catinat, Cahours, Rivalto, Staffarda, Susa
1691 Vaudois driven from Saint-Martin, Prali, la Pérouse
1691 Villefranche, Montalban, Nice, Veillane, Carmagnole, Monmélian
1692 Savoy
1693 Alsace
1693-97 Rhine
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[Gal] La Lande vêtu de jaune doublé de rouge ainsi que Tessé. Les bonnets jaunes avec de pluches rouges, ratachées de
boutonieres d'argent. Justaucorps jaune doublé de rouge, parements rouges; bonnet jaune revers de peluche rouge rattaché de
boutonnières d'argent.
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[Gal] :Les estendarts jaune d'un coté et rouge de l'autre avec le soleil et la devise du Roi et celle du colonel de l'autre coté.
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1738 [Lemau]Ce Régiment a 4 Guidons de soye bleue, Soleil d'or au milieu brodé en or & frangez d'or suivant les Ordonnances
du Roi de 1737.
1740 [Lemau] Ce Régiment a 4 Guidons de soye bleue, & devise du Roi en or au revers un Cocq brodé d'argent, aux armes de
l'Hopital-Vitry & ces mots : vigil & audax, brodez & frangez d'or.
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1701 Carpi combat

1701 Chiari combat
1702.05.01 OB Italy 3 sqn.
1702 Luzzara
1702 Castelnuovo di Bormida combat
1703.05.19 OB Italy 3 sqn.
1703-1704 Winter quarters in the area Mortara-Novara (Piémont) 21.01. not on the quarter lists.
1704 early Mortara-Novara 3 sqn.
1704 Ivrea siege 3 sqn.
1704 Trino entrenchments storm 3 sqn.
1704 OB Italy under Vendôme Reserve 3 sqn.
1705 Cassano battle
1705 OB Mirandola 3 sqn.
1705.07.21 Winter quarters in Modena 3 sqn.
1706.04.18 OB Italy 3 sqn.
1706 Turin battle
1706 Castiglione battle (Colonel Verac +)
1706 Villa Buona and Rovigo station
1707 Toulon relief
1707 Piémont
1707 Sablenz camp 3 sqn.
1707.10.27 Mespiere quarters 3 sqn.
1708.06.13 Arras quarters 3 sqn.
1710.10.24 OB Provence 3 sqn.
1711.04.01 OB Dauphiné 3 sqn.
1711 Catalonia
1712.07.13 Colmar quarters 3 sqn.
1713 Freiburg siege
Regiment 10 Chevilly, Caylus, Lautrec
Name:
05.02.1675 Marquis de La Bretesche (Esprit de Joussaume)
19.02.1682 de Chevilly (Claude Hatte), Marquis de [Choppin]
06.09.1688 Marquis de Caylus (Jean-Anne de Tubières de Grimoard)
08.04.1696 Vicomte de Lautrec (François comte de Celas, marquis de Leberon, d’Ambres et de
Vignolles ) + 02.03.1705 at Montechiaro, near Brescia of wounds.
08.03.1705 Chevalier de Lautrec (N. de Foix d’Ambres)
Vicomte de Lautrec (Louis-Hector, Comte de Celas, Marquis d‘Ambres et de Vignoles),
brother of above. [Père Anselme, T.IX]
1720 Chevalier de Rochepierre
1791=> DR 12
Uniform:
1680 [Gal] dressed in red lined yellow. The bonnet all yellow.
1680 [Golberg] facings yellow, cap yellow.
1700 [Kühn 10] coat red, cuffs yellow, lining yellow, waistcoat yellow, breeches red, buttons white.
1715 [Pajol] coat, cloak, breeches all red with cuffs of a colour different from that of the coat. [Fouré]
Probably yellow, the traditional colours since the colonel Comte de Lautrec had as arms „red with a
cross of Toulouse in gold in 12 pieces.
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1721 [Delaistre] coat red, cuffs light blue, lining ??, waistcoat red, breeches red, buttons white, thin white
buttonlace, neckcloth white, red cap with fur trim, white lace and tassle, cloak red lined red,
shabraque red, no border.
1738 [Lemau] coat, cloak, lining, cuffs, waistcoat and breeches red, buttonlace white in groups of 2, cap
all red laced white, belts etc. leather stitched white, stockings white, hat edged with thin silver lace
and black cockade, horse furniture red edged white with the regimental cypher.
1735 [HKFS] Coat, breeches, cuffs, waistcoat, breeches, Cap red, linings yellow, cap tassel, lace and
buttons white.
Guidons:
1680 [Golberg] Standards yellow, coat of arms, river pouring out of rocks.
1680 [Gal] The standard yellow with a device consisting of a wooden leg with the words „a nouveau mal
nouveau remede“. The colonel had had a leg carried off by a cannon ball some time before and
since then had worn a wooden leg. Two squadrons.
1696-1720 [Charrié] Obverse red, sun, motto embroidered and fringed in gold and silver, reverse red,
allegory of a waterfall cascading out of rocks, a band with the motto "nunquam retro", a motive
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adopted in 1705 after the battle of Monte Chiaro.
1705 [Golberg] Standards red, motto „Nunquam Retro“
1705 [Susane] „In 1705, after the great combat of Montechiaro, the guidons in the colours of Foix-Lautrec
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were charged with a torrent pouring out of a rock with the motto: nunquam retro.“
1756 [HKFS] Standards crimson, sun.
1740 [Lemau] this regiment has 4 Guidons of crimson silk on one side the Royal devices embroidered in
gold and the other side yellow damast with a cloud from which a lightening bolt issues destroying a
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castle with these words: fulgere citius, embroidered and fringed gold.

1675-78 Sarre & Meuse guerilla war
1678 Lewes expedition
1679-81 Sarre camps
1683 Saône camp
1685-87 Saône camps
1688 Luxeburg
1689 Flanders, Walcourt
1690-91 Germany
1692 Flanders, Steinkirk
1695 Namur defense
1702.03.21 OB Italy
1702.03.30 San Bonigo quarters
1702.04.11 Codogno quarters
1702.05.01 OB Italy
1702 Luzzarra combat
1703.05.19 OB Italy 3 sqn.
1703-1704 Winter quarters Sezze, Piémont 3 sqn.
1704 early Winter quarters
1704 Balzola combat
1704 Tricerro occupation 3 sqn.
1704 Monferrat camp 3 sqn.
1704.10.26 OB Lombardy reserve 3 sqn.
1704-1705 Winter quarters in Montechiaro 3 sqn.
1705 Montechiaro combat (Colonel Lautrec +)
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[Charrié] Représentation: voir planche jointe du guidon du régiment devenu, de 1765 à 1774, Damas-dragons: le guidon porte
encore à cette époque le motif du torrent (brodé au naturel) et la devise des Lautrec.
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[Susane] „En 1705, après le beau combat de Montechiaro, ses guidons aux couleurs des Foix-Lautrec furent chargés d’un fleuve
se précipitant d’un rocher avec cette devise : nunquam retro.“
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1738 [Lemau] Ce Régiment a 4 Guidons de soye rouge, Soleil d'or au milieu brodé en or & frangez d'or suivant les Ordonnances
du Roi de 1737.
1740 [Lemau] Ce Régiment a 4 Guidons de soye cramoisie d'un côté, devise du Roi brodé en or & le revers de damas jaune avec
un nuage d'où sort la foudre qui brule un Chateau & ces mots : fulgere citius, brodez & frangez d'or & d'argent.
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1705 Cassano
1705.07.21 OB Lombardy reserve 3 sqn.
1705-1706 Winter quarters in Soucino, from 26.12. in Reggio 3 sqn.
1706 Villa Buona & Rovigo stations
1706 Turin siege
1706 Castiglione
1707 Bichel, Stollhofen lines
1708.05.31 Weissenburg station 1 sqn.
1709.07.15 OB Rhine 3 sqn.
1709.08.26 Rummersheim combat, 4 drag. verwundet 3 sqn.
1711.06.28 Selingen camp 3 sqn.
1711.07.14 Yockenum camp 3 sqn.
1711.07.27-08.03 Selingen camp 3 sqn.
1712.06.27 Selingen camp 3 sqn.
1712 Sarrelouis occupation
1712 Sierck occupation
1713 Landau
1713 Freiburg
Regiment 11 Tessé, Sennectère, Belabre
Name:
11.12.1675 Comte de Nancré (Claude-Antoine de Dreux)
11.11.1676 de Bursard (or Bussard), Marquis de Brussac [Choppin]
04.08.1681 Chevalier de Tessé (Philibert-Emmanuel de Froulay)*
02.04.1692 Sennectère, Comte de (Henri)
11.01.1705 Belabre, Marquis de (N. Le Coigneux)
1727 Comte de Plélo (Louis-Robert-Hippolyte de Bréhan)
1729 Marquis de Nicolaï
1787 4e chasseurs à cheval
* The younger brother of the comte de Tessé, mestre de camp général des dragons. He had
been captain and then major in the regiment of his brother, who later procured a regiment
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for him.
Uniform:
1680 [Gal] dressed in red lined green, The caps red with a silver lace and buttonlace of gold on those of
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the officers.
1700 [Kühn 11] coat red, cuffs lt.green, lining red, waistcoat lt. green, breeches buff, buttons yellow.
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1701 [AN] contract: Cloaks red lined sea-green, justaucorps red lined sea-green, waistcoats red.
1715 [Pajol]: coat red, cloak red, breeches red, cuffs of a different colour (green?).
1721 [MacCarthy-Delaistre] horse furniture red without lace, cloak red.
1721 [Delaistre] coat red, cuffs light blue, lining ??, waistcoat red, breeches red, buttons white, buttonlace
broad white, neckcloth??, aiguillettes white, hat with silver lace, cloak all red, shabraque red no lace.
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[Sourches, III] Frère cadet de M. le comte de Tessé, mestre de camp général des dragons. Il fut capitaine et puis major dans le
régiment de dragons de son frère, qui dans la suite lui procura un régiment.
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[Gal] vêtu de rouge doublé de verd. Les bonnets rouges avec un galon d'argent sur le bonnet & des boutonieres d'or su celuy des
Officiers.
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Contract 15.04.1701 [AN]:
413 ½ aulnes drap rouge de Berry et 125 aulnes de Serge d’Aumalle verd pour la doublure, le tout pour la quantité de cent manteaux
necessaires aux Dragons dudit Regiment . . .
La quantité de 88 aulnes de drap demy ecarlatte pour 24 justaucorps et 24 vestes de dragon.... 88 aulnes de Serge d’aumalle verd de
mer . . . pour les paremens ded. Justaucorps,
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1735 [HKFS] Coat, breeches, cap-bag red, cuffs, waistcoat, linings, cap green, lace and buttons white.
Officers gold. Shabraque green, edge white.
1738 [Lemau] coat, cloak and breeches red, lining, cuffs and waistcoat green, buttons tin rounded and
white button laces, cap red lined green and laced white, belts etc. of leather stitched white, stockings
white, hat edged thin silver and black cockade, horse furniture green lined white with the regimental
cypher.
Guidons:
1680 [Gal] The standards green embroidered gold with the royal motto on one side and the colonel’s
device on the other. Two squadrons. [Charrié ditto]
1738 [Lemau] This regiment has 4 guidons of red silk, the golden sun in the middle, embroidery gold and
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fringes gold according to the Royal Ordonances of 1737.
Armes de Nicolai : d’azur au lévrier courant d’argent, coleté de gueules, bordé et bouclé d’or
1756 [HKFS] Standards green, sun, reverse owner’s arms on green cloth, gold borders.

1675-79 garrison?
1683 Saône camp
1689 Florainville camp
1690 Fleurus battle
1691 Mons, defense of Flanders lines
1692 Namur, Steinkirk, Charleroi
1693 Italy, Marsaglia
1696 Valenza siege
1697 Flanders, Ath siege, Meuse
1701 Spanish Netherlands
1702 OB Italy
1702.03.21 OB Italy
1702.03.30 Grignano quarters
1702.04.06 Miradella
1702.04.11 Caorso
1702.05.01 OB Italy 3 sqn.
1702 Guastalla taken
1702 Borgoforte taken
1702 Luzzarra combat 3 sqn.
1703.05.19 OB Italy 3 sqn.
1703-1704 Winter quarters in Castellazzo (Piémont) 3 sqn.
1704 early Winter quarters in Castellazzo
1704 OB Piémont camp Gabbiano
1704 Ivrea siege
1704 Castel-Nuovo di Bormida combat
1704 Bersello Blockade
1704 Desenzano taken
1704 OB Italy under Vendome Reserve 3 sqn.
1705.03.18 Trino quarters 3 sqn.
1705 Verrua
1705 Chivasso
1705-1706 Winter quarters in Aqua-Negra 3 sqn.
1706.04.18 OB Italy 3 sqn.
1706 Turin battle
1710.04.02 Bethune garrison 2 sqn., Hesdin 1 sqn.
1710.04.13 Bethune garrison 3 sqn.
1710.04.13 Aire garrison 3 sqn.
1710.09.12 Aire Garrison defense 3 sqn.
1712 Douay siege 3 sqn.
1712 Denain
1713 Landau siege
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1738 [Lemau] Ce Régiment a 4 Guidons de soye rouge, Soleil d'or au milieu brodé en or & frangez d'or suivant les Ordonnances
du Roi de 1737.
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1713 Freiburg siege

1713.09.18 OB Alsace under de Quadt 3 sqn.
Regiment 12 Asfeld, d’Hautefort, Saumery
Name:
13.03.1676 d’Audigeau (or Andijos)
26.04.1678 Baron d’Asfeld (Alexis Bidal) + défense de Bonn
07.11.1689 Baron d’Asfeld (Benoît Bidal, brother of above)*
08.04.1696 Chevalier d’Hautefort (Gabriel)
20.03.1709 Comte de Saumery (N. du Mesniel, - or Sommery)
03.03.1731 Comte de La Suze (Louis-Michel de Chamillart)
1791=> 5e Chasseurs à cheval
* According to Sourches the King, on the death of the colonel, gave the regiment of Asfeld [Susane 481] to
the oldest of his brothers who was newly arrived from Sweden and, profiting from the high standing of his
older brother, had previously received a newly formed regiment. Another brother, who had been captain in
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the dead brother’s regiment, received command of the new regiment instead.
Uniform:
1680-96 [Gal & Chartrand] justaucorps green, linings and cuffs red, laced yellow, breeches and
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waistcoats red, bonnet with a green flame lined red.
1680 [Gal] October: dressed in green lined red. The bonnets the same. Two squadrons.
1690 [L&H] Coat darkgreen, breeches, cuffs, cap-bag red (till 1700?). Shabraque red with white border.
1692 [A1B] green faced red.
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1698 [Gal] green faced red, lace and buttons gold. The officers very proper.
1698 [Cor]: green faced red, hat ribbon white, lace yellow, shoulder knot red.
1700 [Kühn 10] coat green, cuffs red, lining red, waistcoat red, breeches red, buttons yellow.
1715 [Pajol] coat red, cloak red, breeches red, cuffs of a different colour (green?).
1721 [Delaistre] coat red, cuffs green, lining green, waistcoat red, breeches red, buttons white, thin white
buttonlace, neckcloth black/white, cap all red with red tassle, cloak red lined green, shabraque red
without border. (The Count of Saumery probably changed the colours to match his arms.)
1735 [HKFS] red, lace and buttons white. edge black/white squares.
1738 [Lemau] coat, cloak, lining, cuffs, waistcoat and breeches red, buttonlace in groups of 2, cap all red
edged white, belts etc. leather stitched white, stockings white, hat edged silver with black cockade,
horse furniture red bordered white with the regimental cypher.
Guidons:
1680 [Gal] The standards green on the one side embroidered in silver where the colonel’s devices are
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found and on the other red with the sun and the royal motto in gold embroidery.
1738 [Lemau]This regiment has 4 guidons of red silk, the sun in the middle embroidered in gold and
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[Sourches, III] Le Roi donna le régiment de dragons d‘Asfeld à l‘aîné de ses cadets (il étoit nouvellement arrivé de Suède, où il avoit
toujours servi, et, en arrivant, le crédit de son frère ainé lui avait fait donner un nouveau régiment de dragons [Susane 553] à faire), et
celui qu‘avoit cet aîné à un autre cadet qui étoit capitaine dans le régiment de feu son frère.
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[Gal] „justaucorps vert, doublure et parements rouges, galonné de jaune; culotte et veste rouge; bonnet a flamme verte et revers
rouge.“
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[Gal] „les deux de Hautefort sont verts avec des paremens rouges & des boutons & des boutonnieres d'or & les Officiers sont fort
propres.“
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[Gal] Les Etendards d'un costé verd en broderie d'argent, ou estoit la devise du Colonel & de l'autre rouge avec le Soleil & la devise
du Roy en broderie d'or.
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fringed gold according to the Royal Ordonances of 1737.
1738 [Lemau] Etendard Asfeld (Cavalerie) en 1738: aurore
1756 [HKFS] Standards: red, sun, reverse green, owner’s arms.

1678-81 Alsace
1681 Strasbourg occupation
1684-85 Winterquarters in Poitiers
1688 Rhine
1689 Bonn defense + mestre de camp [Père Daniel]
1690 Fleurus battle
1691 Mons siege, Leuze combat
1691-92 Winterquarters Moselle
1692 Steinkirk battle
1693 Neerwinden battle, Charleroi siege
1694 coasts, Dunkirk
1695 Brussels bombardment, Namur defense
1696 Meuse
1697 Ath siege
1702.047.22 OB Geldern
1702 Nijmegen combat
1702-1703 Winter quarters Philippville 3 sqn.
1703 early Thionville quarters 3 sqn.
1703.06.03 OB sth. Germany
1703 Landau siege
1703 Speyerbach combat
1704 Chambery siege
1704 Susa taken
1704 Aosta taken
1705 Nice, Chivasso
1705 Castle Montmelian storm
1705 Asti storm
1705 Biella quarters 3 sqn.
1706 Turin battle
1707 Sablonz camp 3 sqn.
1707 Toulon relief
1707.10.26 Saint Michel quarters 3 sqn.
1708.05.07 OB Spain under Noailles 3 sqn.
1708 Tortosa siege
1708 Rosas siege
1709.07.31 Francia camp 3 sqn.
1710.06.02 Tarantaise 3 sqn.
1710.09.18 Conflans camp 3 sqn.
1710.10.16 L’Hôpital at Conflans quarters 3 sqn.
1710 Dec. OB on the Ter 3 sqn.
1711 July Echelles camp 3 sqn.
1711 July OB Piémont 3 sqn.
1712.07.13 in the hills at Pragelas 3 sqn.
1713 Landau siege
1713 Freiburg siege
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[Lemau]Ce Régiment a 4 Guidons de soye rouge, Soleil au milieu brodé en or & frangez d'or suivant les Ordonnances du Roi de
1737.
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Regiment 13 Fimarcon, Cayla, Tilladet, Châtillon
Name:
04.10.1676 Marquis de Barbezières (Charles-Louis de Chémerault)
10.08.1678 Marquis de Fimarcon (Gaston-Paul de Cassagnet de Tilladet), also called Marquis de Narbonne +
after Steenkirk (03.08.1692)
09.08.1692 Marquis de Fimarcon (Jaques de Cassagnet de Tilladet)
1702 Comte de Fimarcon (N. de Cassagnet)
01.04.1705 Marquis du Cayla (François de Baschi)
22.09.1706 Chevalier de Tilladet (N. de Cassagnet)
23.12.1713 Comte de Châtillon (Alexis-Magdeleine-Rosalie)
27.02.1714 Marquis de Goesbriant (Louis-Vincent)
12.12.1724 the regiment becomes Propriété de la maison de „Condé“
01.03.1738 Marquis d’Argence (Pierre-François Achard de Joumare) mestre de camp lieutenant
21.12.1740 + Louis-Henri, duc de Bourbon => Mailly
1791=> DR 13
Uniform:
1678 [Chartrand] green faced isabelle.
1680 [Golberg] cuffs, Cap isabelle.
1680 [Gal] Fimarcon dressed in green lined isabelle with bonnets of the same and the standards green
with gold and silver embroidery with the king’s device on one side and that of the colonel on the
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other.
1690 [L&H] Coat, cuffs, linings, cap-bag darkgreen. Cap darkgreen trimmed with fur. breeches red,
buttons and lace white. Shabraque darkgreen with white border.
1692 [A1B] darkgreen faced darkgreen.
1693 [Chartrand] green faced green.
1700 [Kühn 12] coat green, cuffs green, lining green, waistcoat green, breeches buff, buttons yellow.
1702 [A2B] green faced ?
1715 [Pajol] All red, except the cuffs which probably remained isabelle.
1721 [Delaistre (Sabretache)] Justaucorps, waistcoat and breeches red, cuffs possibly isabelle.
1721 [MacCarthy-Delaistre] horse furniture: yellowish chamois without lace.
1721 [Delaistre] coat yellow, cuffs yellow, lining yellow, waistcoat yellow, breeches yellow, buttons white,
aiguillette yellow, neckcloth white/black, cloak yellow lined yellow, saddlecloth yellow without a
border (yellow = yellowish chamois, note that ventre de biche was the colour of the house of Condé
who took over the regiment in 1724).
1731 [État after Fouré] red with yellowish facings.
1735 [Golberg] Red, buttons gold.
1738 [Lemau] coat, cloak, lining, breeches and waistcoat red, cuff crimson, buttons tin, buttonlace white,
cap red lined crimson bordered white, belts etc. leather stitched white, stockings white, hat with fine
silver lace and black cockade, horse furniture red bordered white and with the cypher of Condé.
Guidons:
1680 [Gal] Fimarcon dressed in green lined isabelle with bonnets of the same and the standards green
with gold and silver embroidery with the king’s device on one side and that of the colonel on the
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other.
1673-1713 [Charrié] (Fimarcon ! Tilladet) Avers green, sun, motto embroidered in gold and silver. Reverse
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green with the arms blue with a golden band.
1714 [Charrié] Obverse: red, sun and devices, embroidered and fringed in gold, reverse: red, emblems
unknown.
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Mercure Galant: Fimarcon vêtu de verd doublé d'isabelle avec les bonnets de mesme ....
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Mercure Galant: Fimarcon ... & les Etandarts verds en broderie d'or & d'argent avec la devise du Roy d'un costé & celle du Colonel
de l'autre.
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[Charrié] Vert, Soleil, devise; brodé et frangé or et argent. Rev. Vert. Armoiries azur à la bande d’or.
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1738 [Lemau] This regiment has 4 guidons of ventre-de-biche silk, the arme of Condé in the middle, semé
of fleurs-de-lys embroidered and fringed in gold and silver according to the Royal Ordonances of
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1737.
1740 [Lemau] This regiment has 4 guidons of crimson silk, the Royal devices in gold, semé of fleurs-de-
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lys, embroidered and fringed in silver.
1756 [HKFS] Standards isabelle, with arms.

1677-78 Germany, Flanders
1678 Saint-Denis near Ghent
1683 Sarre camp
1684 Flanders camp
1688 Rhine
1690 Italy under Catinat, Staffarda
1691 Susa combat
1692 Flanders, Steenkirk + mestre de camp
1693 Neerwinden
1694-98 Flanders, coast
1702 Cremona defense
1702.03.21 Cremona garrison
1702.05.01 OB Italy
1702 Carpi quarters
1705 Alexandrie quarters 3 sqn.
1707 Sablons camp 3 sqn.
1707.10.26 St. Jean quarters 3 sqn.
1709 OB Provence 3 sqn.
1709 July OB Dauphiné 3 sqn.
1711 OB Piémont, Reserve 3 sqn.
1712.07.13 Maurienne quarters 3 sqn.
Regiment 14 Langedoc I
Name:
Languedoc (Languedoc l‘Ancien)
Mestres de camp & Colonels:
04.10.1676 Chevalier de Ganges ‚(François de Vissec de Latude)
08.08.1679 reformed + => Royal
05.01.1684 reestablished Marquis de Ganges [Choppin]
26.09.1684 reformed
20.08.1688 reestablished Marquis de Caylus [Choppin]* + Namur Defence
20.12.1694 Marquis de Caylus-Rouairoux (Pierre-Joseph-Hyacinthe)
June 1711 Comte de Sainte-Amour (N. de la Baume)
1714 Chevalier de Sebbeville (Toussaint-François Cadot)
21.01.1718 Marquis du Châtel ‚(Louis-François Crozat)
1787 6e Chasseurs à cheval
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1738 [Lemau] Ce Régiment a 4 Guidons de soye ventre de biche, les Armes de Condé au milieu semées de fleurs de lys brodez &
frangez en or & en argent suivant les Ordonnances du Roi de 1737.
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1740 [Lemau] Ce Régiment a 4 Guidons de soye cramoisie, devise du Roi en or, semez de fleurs de lys, brodez & frangez
d'argent.
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*It was perhaps two successive colonels named Caylus: a first one in 1688 when the Rgt was reestablished,
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this one killed at Namur, and a second one from 1695 to 1711.
Uniform:
1690 [L&H] all red with blue breeches. Shabraque red with white border.
1692 [A1B] red faced red.
1702 [A2B] blue faced red.
1700 [Kühn 14] coat red, cuffs red, lining red, waistcoat red, breeches red, buttons white.
1702 [Gal] “ Mr Cailus who commanded the regiment of Yellow dragoons in Italy ..“ [This was the
Milanese Regiment of Dragoons of the State, which was commanded for a certain period by a
marquis de Caylus]
1715 [Pajol] coat blue, cloak blue, cuffs probably red, breeches blue. Buttons, buttonlace white. Bonnet
red lined red laced white.
After 1715 [Golberg]: lace and buttons white, Cap blue, bag red. Shabraque blue, border white.
1720 [Fouré] all blue except cuffs which remained red. The saddlecloth was blue edged white.
1724 coat blue, cuffs red, waistcoat and breeches red, buttons silver.
1735 [HKFS] Coat blue, breeches, cuffs, waistcoat, linings, breeches, red.
1721 [Delaistre] 12 drawings showing various ranks and therefore quoted in detail:
Officer hat laced silver, white plumage and black cockade, coat royal blue, cuffs red, lining red, waistcoat
red, breeches red, all lace, buttons and aiguillettes silver. Saddlecloth blue with silver lace according
to rank; cornet with one medium lace with a thin blue middle stripe, officer (captain?) with one broad
and one narrow or (lieutenant?) one broad with thin blue middle stripe.
Man hat with white lace, coat royal blue, cuffs red, lining red, waistcoat red, breeches red, buttons and
lace on coat white, aguillette white, cloak royal blue lined red, saddlecloth blue edged white.
Brigadier (N.C.O.) as for man but all lace silver. 4 silver laces on right arm.
Drummer as for man (but no lace! undress uniform?) Drum blue with white cords. Horse grey/beige (dun).
Clarinet black hat with white plumage and lace, black cockade, coat royal blue, cuffs red edged silver,
buttons and buttonlace silver, aiguillette silver, breeches red, waistcoat not visible, horse light grey,
saddlecloth blue with two laces (or one with thin blue middle stripe). The finery would tend to imply
that this is a dress uniform in contrast to that of the drummer.
Guidons:
17xx [Fouré] Seem to always have been blue with the sun and the motto of the king on one side and on
the other, probably the cross of Toulouse (cross gold, outlined, and with 12 gold pommels)
1730 [Lemau] obverse blue, sun, motto, semé of fleurs-de-lys, embroidered and fringed gold, reverse blue
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with the arms of Languedoc (red with a cross of Toulouse outlined in gold). .
1756 [HKFS] Standards blue, sun. reverse coat of arms of Toulouse: Field gold, 12 golden (what?)

1689 Catalonia, Campredon taken
1690 Staffarda
1690-94 Alpes
1695 Meuse, Namur defence + Marquis de Caylus [Père Daniel]
1697 Flanders
1701 Rhine
1701, start Rhine
1701, July Italy, Chiari
1702.03.21 OB Italy
1702.05.01 OB Italy
1702 Marmirulo quarters
1702 Luzzara combat
1703.05.19 OB Italy 3 sqn.
1703 La Stradella, Castelnuovo di Bormida
1703-1704 Winter quarters in Vigevano, Piémont 3 sqn.
1704 not on the quarter list after 26.01.1704
1704 early in Vigevano quarters
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[Dangeau] „M. de Ganges, colonel des dragons languedoc, qui, quoique les régiments de dragons soient fixés à 12.000 écus, vend
le sien 64.000 livres à M. de Caylus, neveu de M. le cardinal de Bonzy“
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1730 [Lemau] description en 1730: avers bleu; soleil, devise, semis de fleurs de lys or, brodé et frangé or; revers bleu avec les
armes de Languedoc (de gueules à la croix évidée, clechée et pommettée d‘or).
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1704 Trino entrenchments storm 3 sqn.

1704 Ivrea siege 3 sqn.
1704 OB Italy Reserve under Vendôme 3 sqn.
1705.03.18 Alexandrie quarters 3 sqn.
1705.04.15 Alexandrie quarters 3 sqn.
1705 Cassano
1706 Turin
1706 Calcinato
1706 Barcelona siege 3 sqn.
1707 Barbantane camp 3 sqn.
1708 3 sqn. in Dauphiné, 3 sqn. in Catalonia
1708.06.08 OB Provence 3 sqn.
1708.05.07 OB Soanien under Noailles 3 sqn.
1709 OB Provence 3 sqn.
1709 July OB south. France 3 sqn.
1710.07.26 Selingen quarters 3 sqn.
1710 July 2 coy. each quarters in Saverne-Ingweiler-Neuweiler-Pfaffenhofen-Wasselenheim-Marmautier
1710 Sète
1710.11.01 Saverne quarters 3 sqn.
1712.06.27 OB sth. Germany under de Besan, camp Kehl 3 sqn.
1712.01.16 Alt Breisach quarters 3 sqn.
1713 Freiburg
Regiment 15 d’Avaray, La Vrillière, Rouvoy
Name:
20.08.1688 Marquis d’Avaray (Claude-Théophile de Béziade)
13.11.1698 reformed
05.02.1701 Marquis d’Avaray (Claude-Théophile de Béziade) reestablished
1702 Chevalier de La Vrillière (Balthazar Phelypeaux) – paid 86,000 Livres for the regt.
1710-1711 Rouvroy
1714 => Espinay (Susane 465)
Uniform:
1700 [Kühn 10] coat blue, cuffs red, lining red, waistcoat red, breeches red, buttons white.
1705 [AN] (Contrat pour l’habillement du régiment) justaucorps incarnat (dull red) lined green, 36 large
yellow buttons. Green waistcoats with 36 yellow buttons. Caps incarnat lined green. All buttonholes
with white lace. Cloaks incarnat lined green. Shoulderknots and swordknots white.
Drummers: coat incarnat with green facings and black lace.
Shabraques incarnat edged green.
NCOs with silver lace.
Officers completely scarlet with 19 large and 15 small gold buttons on the justaucorps with gold
laced buttonholes, 48 small gold buttons on the waistcoat. Horsefurniture red with gold lace.
Contract 1704/1705:
Monsieur de Lapaupinière [Capitaine]
4 au ¼ drap fin Ecarlatte
4 au ½ Rasse de St Lo E.te
34 boutonnières de tissue d’or de paris pezan 14 oz 4 g ½
19 gros bouttons d’or
4 douzaines dites
7/8 drap E.te pour housse et bouvette
4 oz 1 gross ¾ de bordé d’or
Estat de l’habillement du Régiment de Dragons de la Vrillière fourny par................. mar.d Drapier à Paris le premier mars 1705.
982 au drap Incarnat pour 420 Justocorps à raison de 2 au 1/3 par justocorps
672 au drap de Berry Incarnat pour 168 manteaux à raison de 4 au par manteau
1432 au Serge d’aumalle vert pour doubler le Justocorps
210 au dit verts pour doubler les manteaux
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5125 au Serge St Lo verte pour 420 vestes à raison d’un aune ¼ par veste
1260 douzaines gros bouttons de cuivre d’oré à raison de 3 douz. par justocorps
1260 douzaines dits petits
840 au toille pour doubler les vestes à raison de 2 au par veste
315 au Serge de St Lo incarnat pour 420 housses et 420 bouvettes à raison de ¾ housse et bouvette
52 au ½ Serge St Lo verte pour le couvre?? des bouvettes à raison de huit par bouvette.
Pour la fasson de 420 housses et de 420 bouvettes à raison de 45s housse et bouvette.
1690 douzaines boutonnières de laine .............
1003 au de gallon de laine vert pour 420 housses
420 Grenadières de beuf
200 fournimens de Corne
420 Eguillettes de laine blanche et autant de cordons de sabre
510 au gallon de Serge pour les habits des tambours à raison de
281 au gallon velouté noir
26 croix de tambours
288 oz poil de Chevre pour les boutonnières de justocorps
480 oz. de fil vert et rouge
4 au 1/3 drap de Berry vert pour 13 paremens aux justocorps des tambours
Envoyé le 29 mars 1704

20 au drap Incarnat
6 au ¼ d’aumalle verte
40 oz 4 g d’argent pour Mrs. Les Brigadiers
Guidons:
Unknown, assumed green.

1688 Flanders
1690-94 coast
1695 Flanders
1696 Meuse
1702.04.13 OB Rhine 3 sqn.
1702 Munderkingen combat
1704.08.13 Höchstädt (Blenheim) battle 3 sqn. Taken prisonner [Choppin]
1704-1705 Winter quarters in Comté
1705.05.24 Schweighausen Mosel quarters 3 sqn.
1705.06.15 OB Rhine 3 sqn.
1705.07.03 OB Rhine 3 sqn.
1706.08.16 Moderlinien Oberbronn-Niederbronn quarters
1708 OB sth. Germany 3 sqn.
1708.05.13 Echelsheim quarters 3 sqn.
1708.09.10 quarters Froschweiler-Niederbronn-Zinsweiler-Hohweiler-Ingweiler-Neuweiler 2 sqn.
1709.09.05 Riedseltz quarters Fouragierungen in Zinsweiler 3 sqn.
1710.07.26 2 coy. each quarters in Pfaffenhofen-Ingweiler-Neuweiler-Saverne-Marmünster-Wasselonne
1710 July quarters 1 sqn. Strasbourg, 1 Drusenheim, 1 Bentheim
1710.11.01 quarters Strasbourg 3 sqn.
1711.07.27 Yochenheim camp 3 sqn.
1711.07.27 Salbach-Laufscheithal camp 3 sqn.
1711.08.03 Riseroy camp 3 sqn.
Regiment 16 Du Héron
Raised: 20.08.1688 Susane: 513 Tessin: 1688/46 Fouré: 24 Plate --
Name:
20.08.1688 Chevalier du Héron* [Duvivier] Cavalas, seigneur du Heron; [Sourches III] colonel 12/10/1689**
1698 +
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Sent to Cologne on 25.10.1689. „He had been a councillor at the parlement of Rouen, then was employed
for negociations and a last becoming a colonel of dragoons, a great variety of conditions for the same man.“
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according to Sourches.
Uniform:
Unknown
Guidons:
Unknown

1688 coast
1694 Rhine
1695 Rhine
Regiment 17 Catinat de Saint-Gratien
Name:
20.08.1688 Nicolas Catinat de Saint-Gratien
1698 +
„composed of officers of the province and duchy of Luxemburg“ [Choppin]
Uniform:
Unknown
Guidons:
Unknown

1688 Palatine
1689 Philippsburg
1690 Italy, Staffarda
1691 Nice
1692- Italy
1697 Flanders, siege of Ath
13.12.1698 +
Regiment 18 Saint-Frémont, Cilly
Name:
20.08.1688 Jean-François Ravend, marquis de Saint Frémont
31.10.1690 Claude du Fay d’Athis, marquis de Cilly
1698 +
Uniform:
Unknown
Guidons:
Unknown
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[Etat de la France 1698] ci-devant envoyé à Cologne 25.10.1689
[Sourches III] il avoit été conseiller au parlement de Rouen; depuis il avoit été employé pour les négotiations, et enfin il devenoit colonel
de dragons; grande variété dans la condition d‘un même homme
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1688 Flanders
1690 Fleurus
1691 Germany
1692 coast of Normandy
1694 lines in Flanders
1697 siege of Ath
23.12.1698 +
Regiment 19 Grammont-Fallon, Chantran, Frontenay
Name:
20.08.1688 Michel-Dorothée, Marquis de Grammont-Fallon
12.03.1696 Chantran
1697 Frontenay
1698 +
Uniform:
1692 [A1B]: red faced green. (if it is this regiment of Grammont that is meant)
Guidons:
Unknown

1688 camp of Florainville
1688 Walcourt combat
1689 Mainz siege
1690 Savoy, Staffarda
1691 Nice occupation
1693 Marsaglia battle
1695 Meuse
Regiment 20 Sailly
Raised: 20.08.1688 Susane: 517 Tessin: Fouré: 28 Plate --
Name:
20.08.1688 Aymard-Louis, Marquis de Sailly*
1698 +
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*According to Dangeau, Sailly raised his regiment in Artois.
Uniform:
Unknown
Guidons:
Unknown

1690 Italy, Savoy, Staffarda
1691 Nice
1692 Flanders, Namur, Steinkirk
1693 Neerwinden
1694 Moselle and Rhine
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[Dangeau] “Sailly lève un régiment de dragons en Artois“
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1696 Italy
1697 Flanders
1698 +
Regiment 21 Wartigny
Name:
25.10.1689 César de Brouilly, marquis de Wartigny*
1698 +
According to Sourches the colonel was a gentleman of Champagne whose father was the king’s lieutenant
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in the province. He had previously been a captain in the regiment of Dauphin (infantry, dragoons, cavalry?
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Later he became Mestre de Camp Lieutenant of Dauphin).
Uniform:
1690 [L&H] coat and breeches red, cuffs, linings, cap-bag, waistcoat yellow, buttons, buttonhole lace and
shoulderknot white. Shabraque yellow with white edge.
1692 [A1B]: red, cuffs and facings yellow.
Guidons:
Unknown, assumed yellow.

1689 lines in Flanders
1693 Roussillon
1694 siege of Rosas, battle of Le Ter
1694-95 Palamos, Gerona, Ostalrich, Castelfollit
1696 Italy, siege of Valenza
1697 Moselle
30.01.1698 +
Regiment 22 Gohas
Name:
25.10.1689 Blaise de Biron, comte de Gohas [Sourches III] le 12/10/1689, fait colonel par le Roi*
30.01.1698 +
According to Sourches the colonel was a gentleman of Languedoc who had served for a long time and
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whose father was well-known at court.
Uniform:
Unknown
Guidons:
Unknown
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[Sourches III] le 12/10/1689, fait colonel par le Roi, Gentilhomme de Champagne, dont le père étoit lieutenant du Roi de cette
province
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[Etat de la France 1698] ci-devant capitaine au régiment Dauphin
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[Sourches III] Gentilhomme de Languedoc, qui servoit depuis longtemps, et dont le père avait été fort connu à la cour
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1689 coast
1693 Germany
1693-98 coasts
30.01.1698 +
Regiment 23 Bretoncelles
Name:
25.10.1689 N. d‘Angennes de Bretoncelles
29.09.1696 Louis-Edmond du Fossé de la Mothe, comte de Watteville
30.01.1698 +
th
Made colonel on 12 October 1689, according to Sourches, d’Angennes de Bretoncelles was a gentleman
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of Normandie who had been lieutenant- colonel in the regiment Colonel-Général of dragoons.
Uniform:
Unknown
Guidons:
Unknown

1692 Moselle
1694 Germany, Rhine
1697 Meuse
06.05.1698 +
Regiment 24 Gévaudan, Vidame, Vassé, Pourrières
Name:
25.10.1689 Gévaudan, François de [Sourches III]: M. de Grévaudan, fait colonel le 12/10/1689
05.05.1698 +
17.07.1701 reestablished, Gévaudan, François de
23.12.1702 Vidame de Vassé
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13.06.1705 Pourrières
06.03.1714 Rivarole, Charles-Amédée de Saint-Martin d’Aglié, marquis de
1714 => Caylus
Uniform:
1700 [Kühn 16] coat green, cuffs yellow, lining yellow, waistcoat green, breeches buff, buttons white, cap
green, bag yellow. (This is the only source of any information on the uniform, although unclear
where it came from.)
Guidons:
1707-14 [Charrié] Obverse: red, sun and Royal motto, embroidered and fringed gold. Reverse: red, allegory
of a hand coming out of a cloud and holding lightening bolts. Banderoll with the motto agere repellare et
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[Sourches, III] Le 12/10/1689, fait colonel par le Roi. .... Gentilhomme de Normandie, de la maison d‘Angennes, qui étoit lieutenant-
colonel du régiment colonel-général de dragons
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[Sourches, X] Le 13 juin, le Roi donna le régiment de Vassé au chevalier de Pourrières, brigadier de dragons, qui étoit lieutenant-
colonel du régiment de Bourgneuf.
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superare. (This is the guidon we have assigned to Lesparre. It could have come from this regiment
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instead.)

1692 Rhine
1693 Italy, Marsaglia
1694 Rhine
1702 Friedlingen
1702 OB Germany 3 sqn.
1703.06.06 OB Rhine 3 sqn.
1703 3 sqn. = 240 M.
1703.04.13 OB Rhine 3 sqn.
1704.08.13 Höchstädt battle 3 sqn.
1705.05.24 Joinville quarters till 04.06. 3 sqn.
1705.06.15 not yet arrived at the Rhine
1705.07.03 OB Rhine 2 sqn.
Regiment 25 Du Breuil, Roux
Name:
25.10.1689 Du Breuil + siege of Barcelone [Père Daniel] Made colonel on 12.10.1689 [Sourches
III]
1697 Roux
1698 +
Uniform:
Unknown
Guidons:
Unknown

1689-98 unknown
Regiment 26 d’Averne, Barreau, des Aydes
Name:
25.10.1689 d’Averne, Marquis d‘Avernes, messinois + 1694 combat at Wiesloch
1691 Barreau (or Barrault) + 1695
17.09.1695 des Aydes + Lichtenau, being a brigadier [Père Daniel]
1698 + M. des Aides, chevalier de Saint-Louis [Etat de la France 1698]
[SHAT A1 1113 29/10/1688] „Commissions en blanc pour le régiment de Dragons de M. d’Averne“
Uniform:
Unknown
Guidons:
Unknown
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1707-14 [Charrié] Av.: rouge. Soleil, devise royale. Brodé, frangé or. Rv.: rouge. Allégorie d’une main sortant d’un nuage et
étreignant la foudre. Banderole avec la devise agere repellare et superare.
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1689-98 unknown
1694 Germany, Wiesloch (colonel killed)
1695 Namur (colonel killed [Père Daniel])
169? Lichtenau (colonel killed [Père Daniel])
Regiment 27 Boufflers
Raised: 25.10.1689 Susane: ___ Tessin: ____/__ Fouré: 36 Plate --
Name:
25.10.1689 Boufflers
1698 +
Uniform:
1690 [L&H] coat green and breeches red, cuffs, linings, cap-bag, waistcoat green, buttons, buttonhole
lace and shoulderknot white. Shabraque green with white edge.
1692 [A1B] green, faced green.
Guidons:
Unknown

1689-98 unknown
Regiment 28 Breteuil
Name:
25.10.1689 Breteuil
1698 +
Uniform:
Unknown
Guidons:
Unknown

1689-98 unknown
Regiment 29 Asfeld Étranger
Name:
Asfeld-Étranger
25.10.1689 Baron d’Asfeld (Benoît Bidal)*
07.11.1689 Chev. d‘ Asfeld (Claude-François Bidal, brother of above) , „Asfeld le Jeune“
23.12.1698 +
05.02.1701 reestablished, Asfeld, Claude-François Bidal, Chev. d‘
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29.01.1703 Bouville, Alphonse-Jubert, Marquis de

1714 => Royal & Languedoc
* According to Sourches the King, on the death of the colonel, gave the regiment of Asfeld [Susane 481] to
the oldest of his brothers who was newly arrived from Sweden and, profiting from the high standing of his
older brother, had previously received a newly formed regiment. Another brother, who had been captain in
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the dead brother’s regiment, received command of the new regiment instead.
Uniform:
1690 [L&H] coat and breeches red, cuffs, linings, cap-bag, waistcoat green, buttons, buttonhole lace and
shoulderknot white. Shabraque green with white edge.
1690 [Fouré] red faced light green (cuffs, waistcoat, breeches). As for the others it has buttons and lace in
white. Cap red lined green.
1692 [A1B]: red faced light green.
17xx [Golberg] Coat, breeches red, lapels, cuffs, linings, cap-bag light green. shabraque light green, edge
white.
1700 [Kühn 17] coat red, cuffs lt. green, lining lt. green, waistcoat lt. green, breeches red, buttons white.
[La Figurine Belge1977]: Drummer Coat (light-)green, facings red, white lace on seams and sleeves. Drum
light green, tyres red, coat of arms of Asfeld.
26.10.1696 contract for 372 fusils [AN]
Guidons:
Guidon light green with sun, reverse Asfeld arms.
1701-1703 [Charrié]: Obverse: red, sun and motto, embroidered and fringed in gold and silver. Reverse:
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green with the colonel’s arms.

1689 Germany, occupation of Kocum
1691 Flanders, siege of Mons, Liége,
1692 siege of Namur,
1692 battle of Steenkirk, siege of Huy
1693 Neerwinden, mestre de camp wounded
1693 Charleroi, defense of Namur
1697 Rhine
1702 Lüttich occupation 3 sqn.
1702 Nijmegen combat 3 sqn.
1702 Landau siege
1703 Trabach occupation 3 sqn.
1703 Speyerbach combat 3 sqn.
1703.06.06 OB Rhine 3 sqn.
1703.04.13 OB Rhine 3 sqn.
1704 Gibraltar siege 3 sqn.
1705 Cadiz occupation 3 sqn.
1705 Badajos siege 3 sqn.
1706 OB vor Madrid 3 sqn.
1707 Almanza battle 3 sqn.
1707 Lerida siege
1708 Tortosa siege 3 sqn.
1708 Lerida siege 3 sqn.
1709 Roussillon & Sète
1710? Sète defense
1711 Barcelona siege
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[Sourches, III] Le Roi donna le régiment de dragons d‘Asfeld à l‘aîné de ses cadets (il étoit nouvellement arrivé de Suède, où il avoit
toujours servi, et, en arrivant, le crédit de son frère ainé lui avait fait donner un nouveau régiment de dragons à faire), et celui qu‘avoit
cet aîné à un autre cadet qui étoit capitaine dans le régiment de feu son frère.
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[Charrié] 1701-1703: Av.:rouge, Soliel, devise, Brodé, frangé or et argent, Rv.: vert armes du mestre de camp.
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Regiment 30 Grammont, d‘Escorailles
Name:
25.10.1689 Grammont, marquis de
12.03.1696 d’Escorailles, François-Philippe, marquis de
18.11.1698 +
Uniform:
1690 [L&H] coat and breeches red, cuffs, linings, cap-bag, waistcoat green, buttons, buttonhole lace and
shoulderknot white. Shabraque green with white edge.
1692 [A1B] red faced green.
Guidons:

1689-98 Flanders
Regiment 31 Ganges-Cadet
Raised: 25.10.1689 Susane: 555 Tessin: Fouré: 39 Plate --
Name:
25.10.1689 N. de Ganges, „Ganges-Cadet“
1698 +
Uniform:
Unknown
Guidons:
Unknown

Unknown
Regiment 32 Bretagne
Name:
25.10.1689 États de Bretagne, ou Marquis du Cambout *+ Carpi 1701
1698 +
11.03.1702 reestablished, de Tournemine + Malplaquet
20.03.1705 Marboeuf, Robert-Jean, comte de
15.08.1714 => Dauphin
According to Dangeau the marquis du Cambout, a nephew of the Duke de Coislin and an old cavalry
captain, was made colonel of a regiment of dragoons raised in Bretagne. It was to be of 12 companies and
raised and supported at the expense of the province like that raised in Languedoc. A fund of 131 490 £ was
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provided yearly for the support of the regiment. Sourches adds that on 7 February 1689 the marquis de
Cambout who had previously been a lieutenant-colonel of cavalry, thanked the king for the favour he done in
giving him the regiment of dragoons of Bretagne. The oldest son of the count de Roye of the house of
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Rochefoucauld, a tall, well built boy, who had been a Hugenot but had volontarily converted, he had been
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mestre de camp of the regiment of Cravates du Roi.
Uniform:
1689 [SHAT A1/902] „When the regiment was raised the Etats de Bretagne demanded bluish cloaks,
which was more reasonable because the standards are divided blue and white with the arms of France and
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Brittany thus finding a lining which would recall Brittany.“ Unclear but seems to imply blue lined white.
1700 [Kühn 18] coat red, cuffs yellow, lining yellow, waistcoat yellow, breeches red, buttons yellow.
Guidons:
1689 [SHAT A1/902] (see above) „... the standards are divided/split blue and white with the arms of
France and Brittany ... „ Probably with France on the blue (obvers) and Brittany on the white
(reverse) side. The arms of Brittany are silver semé of black hermine.

1689-98 coast guard
1702 coast
1705 Moselle, Flanders
1706 Ramillies battle, garrison in Menin during the siege (22/07-22/08)
1708 Rhine
1709 Rummersheim combat (partly deserted due to lack of pay)
1712 Douay siege
1712 Bouchain siege
Regiment 33 La Salle, de La Verchère, Poitiers, Despeaux, Conflans
Name:
25.10.1689 La Salle
1691 M. de La Verchère
1695 de Poitiers
1698 +
05.02.1701 Poitiers
1704 Despeaux
29.06.1708 Conflans, marquis de (+ Arleux)
11.07.1711 Coetman, Alexis de Conflans (brother of above)
22.07.1714 => Mestre de Camp & Colonel Général
Uniform:
1700 [Kühn 19] coat red, cuffs lt. blue, lining red, waistcoat lt.blue, breeches buff, buttons yellow.
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“Le marquis du Cambout, neveu du duc de Coislin et ancien capitaine de cavalerie, a été fait colonel d‘un régiment de dragons
qu‘on lève en Bretagne. Il sera de douze compagnies, et sera levé et entretenu aux dépens de la province, comme le régiment qu‘on
lève en Languedoc l‘est aux dépens du Languedoc [Dangeau]
-Le 7 février 1689, on vit M. le marquis de Cambout, ci-devant lieutenant-colonel de cavalerie, remercier le Roi de la grâce qu‘il lui avait
faite de lui donner le régiment de dragons de Bretagne (fils ainé de M. le comte de Roye, de la maison de la Rochefoucauld; grand
garçon parfaitement bien fait, qui avoit été hugenot et s‘était converti volontairement. Il etoit mestre de camp du régiment de cavalerie
des cravates du Roi) [Sourches, III]
-La dernière guerre a donné lieu à deux autres établissements dont il paroist aussy à propos de parler icy. Un est d‘un des régimens de
Dragons connu sous le nom de régiment de Dragons de Bretagne et commandé par le marquis de Cambout. Il est entretenu aux
dépens de la province qui fait tous les ans pour cette dépense un fond de 131 490 £ [Mémoire des intendants F fs 22209, fol. 17, in
André Corvisier, Les français et l‘armée sous Louis XIV d‘après les Mémoires des intendants, Vincennes, 1975]
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[SHAT A1/902] A la levée du Régiment les états de Bretagne demandent manteaux bleusis, ce qui paroistroit plus raisonable, que
les tapisses des Etandarts sont mipartiesz de bleuf et de blanc avec les armes de France et de Bretagne, ainsi en trouvant une
doublure qui auroit rapport a la Bretagne.
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Guidons:
Unknown

1695-98 Flanders
1702 Nijmegen combat
1702-1703 Winter quarters in Bonn
1703 Eckeren combat
1703 garrison in Luxemburg
1708 OB Germany, garrison in Luxemburg/Thionville 3 sqn.
1709 Tarantaise 3 sqn.
1709 July OB south. France 3 sqn.
1710.11.17 on the Meuse station 3 sqn.
1711 Arleux combat
1711.07.11 OB Flanders de Coigny 3 sqn.
1711.10.22 Péronne quarters 3 sqn.
1712 Denain combat
1712 Douay siege
1712 Bouchain siege
Regiment 34 Pomponne, Fontbeausard, Saint-Chamond
Name:
25.10.1689 Pomponne*
25.02.1692 Fontbeausard (Philippe-André de Forest de)
26.10.1704 Saint-Chamond
15.08.1714 => Lautrec (Susane 470)
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* Sourches recalls that on 10 May 1689 the cardinal Fürstenberg gave his regiment of dragoons to M. le
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Chevalier de Pomponne who had distinguished himself in the war on the Rhine.
Uniform:
1690 [L&H] red, cuffs, linings, cap-bag yellow, breeches red. Shabraque yellow edged white.
1692 [A1B]: red faced yellow.
1700 [Kühn 20] coat red, cuffs red, lining yellow, waistcoat yellow, breeches red, buttons yellow.
25/3/1671 Dragons Fürstemberg (not mentioned in Susane since it was a foreign regiment raised for
Cologne) „ a regiment of 1000 dragoons has been raised in Paris, which is due to go to the Netherlands in
the next days, all clothed in a justaucorps and cloak of dark blue cloth, lined red and with a fine Kollet (buff
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coat)“
Guidons:
Unknown, assumed yellow.

1689 Flanders
1692 Namur, Steinkirk
1693 Italy, La Marsaglia
1694 coast
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*[Sourches III] Le 10 mai 1689, on sut aussi que M. le cardinal de Fürstenberg avoit donné son régiment de dragons à M. le
chevalier de Pomponne, qui s‘étoit extrêmement distingué depuis que la guerre se faisoit le long des bords du Rhin.
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25/3/1671 Dragons Fürstemberg Si levava in Parigi in tutta fretta un Reggimento di 1000 Dragoni, che dovranno seguire nella
giornata à Paesi Bassi S.M., vestiti tutti di cappe e ferraioli di panno di color turchino, fodrati di rosso con colletti bellissimi. ...
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1696 coast
1697 Roussillon, Ostalrich, Barcelona sieges
1702 Munderkingen combat
1702 Saarburg 8 coy., Sierch 4 coy. quarters 3 sqn.
1703 Ostende-Gent station 2 sqn.
1703 OB Flanders
1703.04.13 OB Rhine 3 sqn.
1704 Schellenberg defense 3 sqn.
1704.08.13 Höchstädt (Blenheim) battle (taken prisoner) 3 sqn.
1704-1705 Winter Fenestrange-Bouquenon-Saargemünd
1708 Oudenaarde battle
1712 Denain combat
1712 Douai siege
1712 Bouchain siege
1713 Landau siege
1713 Freiburg siege
Regiment 35 Saint-Hermine, Rohan-Chabot
Name:
31.10.1690 Comte de Saint-Hermine (Elie)
30.01.1698 +
05.02.1701 reestablished Saint-Hermine
23.12.1702 Chev. de Rohan-Chabot
14.08.1714 => La Reine, Belabre
Uniform:
Unknown
29.10.1695 contract for 372 fusils, 372 bayonets and 36 carbines [AN]
1700 [Kühn 21] coat red, cuffs blue, lining blue, waistcoat red, breeches buff, buttons yellow, cap red, bag
blue. (This seems to be a reconstruction based on the guidon. The red/yellow of Rohan appears
more likely.)
Guidons:
1 Guidon Höchstädt 1704 after Spofforth.
1702-14 Obverse: blue, sun and motto, below and around it foliage and two petards. Fringed gold and
silver. Reverse: crimson, an allegory showing a grenade on the ground and a dead tree from which
a green branch is sprouting. Two ribbons with mottos: concussus resurgo over the tree and ad huc
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spes durat avorum over the bomb.

1690 Flanders, Mons siege
1692 Rhine
1693 coast
1694 Flanders, defense of Namur
1702 Nijmegen
1703.06.06 OB Rhine 3 sqn.
1703 1. Höchstädt combat
1703 Landau siege
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[Charrié] Av.:bleu. Soleil, devise. Au-dessus foudres et feuillages argent . Frangé or et argent. Rv.: cramoisi. Allégorie montrant une
grenade sur le sol et un arbre mort d’où sort une jeune pousse. Deux banderoles avec concussus resurgo/ad huc spes durat avorum.
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1703.04.13 OB Rhine 3 sqn.

1704.08.13 Höchstädt battle (taken prisoner) 3 sqn.
1705.07.03 Orsmael-Tirlemont station 3 sqn.
1706.06. Thulin camp 3 sqn.
1706 Ramillies battle
1710.04.02 Landrecies garrison, 17.04. to Le Quesnoy
1711.07.14 Oberhausen camp 3 sqn.
1711.07.27 Salbach-Langenschleital camp 3 sqn.
1711.08.03 Risweg camp 3 sqn.
1712 Luxemburg
1713.09.18 Hatheim quarters 3 sqn.
1713 Landau siege
1713 Freiburg siege
Regiment 36 Langedoc II
Raised: 31.10.1690 Susane: 564 Tessin: 1690/3 Fouré:48 Plate 22
Name:
1690-1713 Languedoc 2e. ou second Languedoc
Mestres de camp
31.10.1690 de Marzou
30.01.1698 +
05.01.1703 La Fare-Tornac, Antoine-Denis-Auguste, comte de
10.11.1713 => Languedoc 1er.
Uniform:
1690 [L&H] red, breeches blue, cuffs, linings, cap-bag red. Shabraque red edged white.
1692 [A1B]: red faced red.
17xx [Golberg] Coat red, lapels, cuffs, linings, cap-bag red, breeches blue, shabraque red.
1700 [Kühn 23] coat blue, cuffs red, lining blue, waistcoat red, breeches buff, buttons white.
Guidons:
Unknown

1709 Roussillon
1709 Dauphiné
1709 July OB south. France
1710.10.24 Savoy 3 sqn.
1711.06.28 Neuberg/Alsace camp 3 sqn.
1711 July to Besancon 2 sqn. (with Berwick then 3 sqn.)
1713 Landau siege
1713 Freiburg siege
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Regiment 37 Verrue
Name:
31.10.1690 Verrue, Joseph-Ignace-Auguste-Mainfroy-Jérôme de Scaglia, comte de
1698 +
The comte of Verrua was a Piedmontese gentleman, who had served as a Colonel of Dragoons of the duke
of Savoy, but left his service because the duke took the count’s wife as his mistress
Uniform:
1692 [A1B]: red faced yellow.
Guidons:
Arm of M. de Scaglia count de Verrua : silver with a black cross with 4 black lozenges in the cantons.

1694 Flanders
1697 Ath siege
Regiment 38 Silly, Payssac, Gouffier
Name:
31.10.1690 de Silly (or Sully or Sillery?)
06.04.1693 de Payssac (or Paissac)
03.01.1696 de Gouffer (or Gouffier) + Hochstädt 1704
1698 +
Uniform:
1690 [A1B] red faced red.
1690 [L&H] coat and breeches red, cuffs, linings, cap-bag, waistcoat red, buttons, buttonhole lace and
shoulderknot white. Shabraque red with white edge.
Guidons:
Unknown, assumed red.

1690-98 unknown
1693 Italy, La Marsaglia
Regiment 39 Rannes, Le Cogneux
Name:
31.10.1690 Rannes, Louis d’Argouges, marquis de
30.01.1698 +
29.11.1705 Rannes (reestablished)
18.04.1711 Le Cogneux
1713 => Belabre
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Uniform:
1700 [Kühn 22] coat green, cuffs green, lining red, waistcoat red, breeches buff, buttons yellow, cap all
green, shabraque red edged green.
Guidons:
Unknown

1692 Moselle
1693 Germany
1705 coast of Guyenne
1707 coast of Normandie
1708 Rhine then Flanders
1708 Lille defense 3 sqn.
1708 OB Germany, after Fremont 3 sqn.
1709-1710 Dauphiné
1710.10.17 on the Meuse station 3 sqn.
1711.06.06 OB Alsace, quarters in Luxemburg 3 sqn.
1712 Douay siege 3 sqn.
Regiment 40 Montalet
Name:
31.10.1690 de Montalet *
1698 +
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M. le Chevalier de Montalet, previously captain of 100 mounted fusiliers was made colonel on 12 October
1689. He was a Gascon who had previously been a mousquetaire then captain of the regiment of Picardie
and then capitain lieutenant of the company of Fusiliers de Flandres which had been disbanded at the peace
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of 1678 and had hung around the court for a long time in the hope of employment [Sourches].
Uniform:
Unknown
Guidons:
Unknown

1690-98 unknown
Regiment 41 Anvoile, Bragalonne
Name:
31.10.1690 d’Anvoile
1696 de Bragalonne, Vicomte de +1702 Luzarra
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25.10.1689: „M. le ch. de Montalais , ci-devant capitaine de cent fusiliers à cheval“ [Etat de la France 1698],
[Sourches III] fait colonel le 12/10/1689 C‘étoit un gascon qui avoit été premièrement mousquetaire, ensuite capitaine dans le régiment
de Picardie, et puis capitaine lieutenant de la compagnie des fusiliers de Flandre, lesquels avaient été cassés à la paix de 1678, il étoit
demeuré à la cour assez longtemps dans l‘espérance d‘un emploi.
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1698 +
Uniform:
Unknown
Guidons:
Unknown

1690-98 unknown
Regiment 42 Morsan
Name:
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31.10.1690 de Morsan
1698 +
Uniform:
Unknown (sad, because a woman served in this regiment before going on to serve in the infantry regiment
of Du Biéz)
Guidons:
Unknown

1690-98 unknown
Regiment 43 Artois, Arrincourt
Raised: 31.10.1690 Susane: 567 Tessin: 1690/9 Fouré: Plate --
Name:
31.10.1690 États d‘Artois [Etat de la France 1698] M. d‘Havrincourt*
1698 +
* In the archives of Arras Yves Roumegoux found the following statement of the Assembly held in November
1690: „The states of Artois have resolved unanimously in their last assembly to offer his Majesty to raise at
their expense a regiment of cavalry or dragoons of 8 companies as he should find more suitable and to
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continue supporting it thereafter.“ On 30 October 1691 they recorded that: „we have paid the treasurer of
the Extrordinaires des Guerres on the order of the King the sum of 100.000 £ to be distributed equally
amongst the 12 captains of the regiment of dragoons which the last assembly had offered to the King to
raise at the expense of the province. To make up the sum the deputies were obliged to take interest on the
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20 of last by Mssrs Esglegatte, Pecqueur & de la Forge, receivers of the states, for the sum of 30.000 £, by
reason of 10.000 £ each, following the permission given to the said deputies by the assemlby vote on this
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subject on 4 January 1691.“
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[Duvivier] Le Tellier, seigneur de Morsan.
[Etat de la France 1698] chevalier Le Tellier, chevalier de Malte
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[Archives Arras] Assemblée des États d’Artois tenue au mois de novembre 1690: „Les Etats d’Artois ont résolu d’une voix
commune dans leur dernière assemblée d’offrir à sa Majesté de faire à leurs frais la levée d’un régiment de cavalerie ou de dragons de
8 compagnies selon qu’il lui serait plus agréable qu’il lui plairait d’entretenir dans la suite“
États des affaires de la province d’Artois depuis l’assemblée générale du 30/10/1691 jusqu’à celle de pareil jour de l’an 1691: „on a
payé au trésorier de l’extraordinaire des guerres par ordre du Roi la somme de 100.000 £ pour être distribuée également aux 12
capitaines du régiment de dragons que la dernière assemblée avait offerte au Roi de lever aux dépens de la province pour subvenir à
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On 21 December 1690 the King gave to M. d’Havrincourt, captain of cavalry of Artois origin, the regiment
of dragoons which the States of the province of Artois had offered to raise at their expense, says
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Sourches.
Uniform:
Unknown
Guidons:
Unknown

1690-98 unknown, coasts?
Regiment 44 Valençay
Name:
31.10.1690 de Valençay
1698 +
Uniform:
Unknown
Guidons:
Unknown

1690-98 unknown
Regiment 45 Roi d‘Angleterre
Raised: __.__.1691 Susane: ___ Tessin: ____/_ Fouré: -- Plate --
Name:
Roi d’Angleterre Dragons (à pied)
1685 William Dongan, Earl of Limerick
1689 Walter Dongan (son of above, + Boyne )
1690 Walter Nugent (+ 1691 Aughrim)
1691 Richard Bellew => King of England’s Dismounted Dragoons
1691 Thomas Maxwell (+ Marsaglia)
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1693 Dominick Sarsfield, 4 Viscount Kilmallock
1698 + => Bourke
Uniform:
Unknown (red with blue facings?)
cette somme, les dites députés ont été obligés de faire prendre à intérêt au dernier vingt, par les sieurs d’Esglegatte, Pecqueur et de la
Forge, receveurs des Etats, la somme de 30.000 £, à raison de 10.000 £ chacun suivant la permission donnée aux dits députés par
l’assemblée à la main qui s’est tenue sur ce sujet le 4 janvier 1691“.
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[„Mémoires du Marquis de Sourches“ Tome III p.339] „21 décembre 1690: Le Roi donna à M. d’Havrincourt, capitaine de cavalerie
originaire d’Artois, le régiment de dragons que les États de la province d’Artois avaient offert de lever à leurs dépens.“
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Guidons:
Unknown

1690 Boyne
1691 Aughrim
1693.10.04 Marsaglia
Regiment 46 Reine d’Angleterre
Raised: __.__.1691 Susane: ___ Tessin: ____/_ Fouré: -- Plate --
Name:
Reine d’Angleterre Dragons (à pied)
1689 Francis O’Carroll (+ Marsaglia 1693)
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1693 Charles O’Brien 5 Lord Clare
1696 Oliver O’Gara
1698 + => IR Galmoy
Uniform:
Unknown
Guidons:
Unknown

1690- Limerick
1693 Marsaglia (colonel+)
1694 Spain, Le Ter
1696 Hostalrich
Regiment 47 Saint-Sernin
Name:
1702-1714 Saint-Sernin, Jean-Benoît-César-Auguste de Porcelets-Maillaine-Tholet Marquis de
15.08.1714 => La Reine & Belabre
Uniform:
1700 [Kühn 24] coat red, cuffs yellow, lining --, waistcoat --, breeches --, buttons --.
1710 Chev. de Quincy mentions the uniform as being a „colour so bizarre“, „an extraordinary colour“. but
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unfortunately did not describe which colour it was.
Guidons:
Unknown

1705 Mosel
1706 Alsace
1707 Franken
1708.05.13 Strasbourg quarters 3 sqn.
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[Chev. de Quincy] „Il m’a été dit que S.M. lui ayant donné l’agrément de lever un regiment de dragons, il choisit une couleur si
bizarre que le marchand de l’habillement du Roi, lui ayant fait apporter tous les draps, il ne voulut point les recevoir en disant qu’il (le
marchand) les lui vendait trop cher. Le pauvre marchand ne sachant que faire de cette quantité de drap par rapport à cette couleur
extraordinaire, fut obligé de les lui laisser à un prix des plus modiques. Si cela est vrai, ce tour est d’un veritable gascon!“
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1708.05.31 Lauterburg/Weissenburg 2 sqn.

1709.07.24 Denain camp 3 sqn.
1710.07.23 Bethune garrison 3 sqn.
1710 Bethune defense 3 sqn.
1710.10.03 Pont Labesse camp 3 sqn.
1712.05.06 Valenciennes quarters 3 sqn.
1712 Douay siege
1712 Bouchain siege
1713 Freiburg
Regiment 48 Bozelli
Name:
15.05.1702 Bozelli, Galeazzo (raised in Mantua and Cremona by commission of Philipp V, the colonel
was beheaded in 1706)
06.02.1703 Bozelli, Scipion (son of above)
15.08.1714 => Saumery (If it is the same regiment as the Spanish regiment of Boselli, then it went back
to Spanish service due to its Mantuan origin.)
Uniform:
Unknown (The Spanish regiment of Boselli had a red coat and green facings in 1714. [A.G. Simancas])
Guidons:
Unknown

1702 Luzarra combat
1704 Vercelli siege
1704 Ivrea siege
1704 Verrua siege
1705 Cassano battle
1706 Turin battle
1707 Lerida siege
1708 Tortosa siege
1710 Gerona siege
1711 Roussillon
Regiment 49 Villegagnon, de Prie, Vitry
Name:
15.05.1702 Villegagnon, comte de
1705 de Prie
1706 Vitry, Chev. de
1713 + => Bonnelles
Uniform:
Contract of 01.05.1703 [AN]:
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Man: coat and cloak red lined blue, cuffs blue, waiscoats blue, lined white, bonnets red lined blue, saddle
clothes and holster covers blue, buttons white, belts buff, aiguillettes and sabre cords white, cord of
powderhorn white, necktie black, black pouches, black hats with silver lace, white gloves, grey
stockings.
Drummer: as for man, livery lace, cross and belt.
01.05.1703 contract [AN] :

Pour 420 Justaucorps et 420 manteaux a 6 au ½ pour chaque 2730 au Drap f : dusseau Incarnat
Paremens a 1/3 140 au Drap f : dusseau bleu
Doublures a 5 au ½ 2310 au Serge d’Aumalle bleue
Pour les Vestes a 2 au ½ 1050 au Serge de Mouye bleue
Pour doubler les vestes a 2 au ½ 1050 au de Toille bl
Pour faire 420 bonets a 1/3 140 au Serge f : de St. Lo Incarnat
Pour faire 420 housses et les revers des bonets a ¾ 315 au Serge f : de St. Lo bleue
Pour doubler les housses et les bonets 420 au de Toille
840 d Gros boutons d’etain
126 d de petits boutons d’etain pour vestes
Pour Galon les housses et les bonets
420 Sabres
408 Ceinturons de buffle piquez
420 Equillettes et cordons de Sabre de laine blanche
408 fournimens de corne avec leur ressors de cuivre
408 Cordons de laine blanche pour les fournimens
408 bajonettes à douille
420 cravattes noire
420 bourses noires
420 chapeaux de Codebec bordé d’argent fin
420 p. de gans blancs
420 p. de bas gris
12 Coliers de tambours
12 Ceinturons
Galonnez de la livrée de M. de Villegagnon avec leurs houppes
50 a de fil rouge pour coudre les habits
30 a de cordonet poil de chevre rouge pour faire les boutonnieres
22 croix pour les tambours
Guidons:
Unknown, assumed blue.

1703 Breisach siege
1703 Landau siege
1704 Höchstädt battle
1705 Moselle
Regiment 50 Pézeux
Name:
03.10.1702 Pézeux, Clériadus de Pra-Balaisseau, Chev. de
20.03.1709 Brossia
05.09.1711 Clermont d’Amboise, Pierre-Gaspard comte de
15.05.1714 Balleroy, Jacques-Claude-Augustin de la Cour, Marquis de
15.08.1714 => Beauffremont
Uniform:
1700 [Kühn 27] coat red, cuffs yellow, lining --, waistcoat --, breeches --, buttons --. This is the only, when
unconfirmed, information we have on the uniforms of this regiment.
Guidons:
[A. Beek] blue with gold border of leaves and gold fringes. Arms of France under a crown on one side and
arms containing armoured arm holding staff on the other.
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1703 Breisach siege
1703 Landau siege
1703 Speyerbach
1704 Chambery defense
1704 Susa taken
1705 Cassano battle
1706 Turin battle
1707 Rhine
1708 Oudenaarde battle 3 sqn.
1710 Douay defense
1710.04.02 Cambrai garrison 3 sqn.
1710.04.13 Aire garrison 3 sqn.
1710.10.30 St. Omer garrison 3 sqn. (on foot)
1712 Denain combat
1712 Douay siege
1713 Freiburg siege
Regiment 51 d’Aubigné, Lesparre, Granville
Raised: 03.10.1702 Susane: 582 Tessin: 1702/7 Fouré: 56 Plate 27a & b
Name:
03.10.1702 Chevalier d’Aubigné (nephew of Mme de Maintenon + Ramillies)
30.05.1706 Lesparre, Louis-Antoine de Grammont, Comte de (son of Duc de Guiche)
01.01.1709 Granville, Étienne-Julien Loquet de
16.11.1713 disbanded
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On the 7 June 1706 was announced that „The regiment of Mr d’Aubigné killed in the recent battle has been
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given to Mr. de Lespastre (sic, = Lesparre), son of the Duc de Guiche.“
Uniform:
1704 [AN] Coat red, lining, cuffs feuillemorte, shoulderknot and 36 buttons white. Waistcoat feuillemorte,
edge, lace and 42 buttons white. Breeches feuillemorte. Caps red lined feuillemorte with white lace
and feuillemorte tassle. Hat edged silver. Swordknot and gloves white. Cloaks red lined feuillemorte
with three laces with tassles in blue/feuillemorte/white. Saddlecloth feuillemorte edged white. Red
ribbon on horse’s tail.
Drummer: coat red lining and cuffs feuillemorte, seams with lace in blue/feuillemorte/white. The drummer
also wore a casaque (sleeveless mantle) with 12 laces similar to those on the men’s cloaks.
Officers: coat red linings and cuffs feuillemorte, shoulderknot, lace and buttons silver. Bonnet red lined
feuillemorte, trim and tassle silver. Waistcoat feuillemorte edged and laced silver. Breeches
feuillemorte. Cloak red lined feuillemorte.
Horsefurniture feuillemorte edged silver.
1706 [AN] Coat yellow, lining, cuffs red, shoulderknot and 36 buttons white. Waistcoat red, 42 buttons
white. Breeches red. Caps yellow lined red with white tassle. Swordknot and gloves white. Cloaks
yellow lined red with livery laces. Saddlecloth yellow edged livery lace.
Drummer: coat yellow, lining and cuffs red, livery lace.
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7/6/1706 Paris „Le regiment de Mr d'Aubigné tué à la derniere bataille à été donné à Mr de
Lespastre fils du Duc de Guiche.“
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Officers: coat yellow, linings and cuffs red, shoulderknot, lace and buttons silver. Bonnet yellow lined red,
trim and tassle silver. Waistcoat red edged and laced silver. Breeches red. Horsefurniture yellow
edged silver.
Livery of Grammont:
Drummers of Bandes Béarnaises, wearing the livery of Duc Grammont: yellow coat, red horn buttons, red
and blue lace on all seams, yellow drum with the Duc’s arms (Labouche, Les milices béarnaises avant le
XIXe siècle, Pau, 1891, p. 51) Yellow lined red according to other souces.
Contract Archives Nationales 1704, Aubigné:

Pour 388 Justeaucorps à 2 au 5/8 1018 aulnes ½ Drap du Seau rouge
Doublures à 3 au ¾ 1455 aulnes Serge d’aumalle feüillemorte
Pour 385 vestes à 2 au 1/8
818 aulnes 1/8 Serge de Mouye feüillemorte
818 aulnes 1/8 de Toille
Paremens de 12 Tamb. à 1/3 4 aulnes Drap du Seau feüillemorte
Pour 385 Manteaux à 4 au ¼ 1636 aulnes ¼ Drap de Semur rouge
Paremens des manteaux à 1 au ½ 577 aulnes ½ Serge d’aumalle feüillemorte
Pour 420 bonets à 1/3 140 aulnes Drap du seau rouge
Pour les revers 66 aulnes Serge de Mouye feüillemorte
Pour 420 housses à ½ au 210 aulnes Serge de St Lo feuillemorte
Pour doubler les housses et les bonets à ¾ 315 aulnes de Toille rouge
(page 2)
1200 douz. gros boutons d’étein
1380 douz. de petits
Pour Gallonner les 12 habits des Tambours et pour les agreements des 420 Manteaux
2300 onces grand gallon de livrée
170 onces de Bordé pour les casaques
1680 Ouppes pour les manteaux et casaques des Tambours
Pour Galonner les housses 1250 au grand Gallon de fil blanc
Pour Galloner 420 Vestes à 12 au 5040 au petit gallon de fil blanc
50 lb de fil rouge à coudre
30 lb de cardonnet rouge pour les boutonnières
420 Sabres lames Olindes
408 Bajonettes à douille
420 Chapeaux codebecq
420 Bourses de Taffetas doublées de Treilly
420 Cravattes de flours noir
420 paires de gans bl.
420 Rubans de queues de chevaux à ouppes
420 agraffes de manteaux
420 Eguillettes et cordons d’épées de laine blanche
Pour 420 bords de Chapeaux à demi once chaque 216 onces Gallon d’argt. en Tissue
(Page 3)
Pour galonner les manches des 24 brigadiers 4 au chaque à 2 onc ½
60 onces de gallon d’argt.
au Sr. Depré Brodeur pour les Etandars et croix des Tambours
12 paires de baguettes
3 Lances d’etandars
3 au de Taffetas bl. pr. les cravattes
9 Glans Rouge feüillemorte et argent avec six houppes et trois couleurs de
8 onces 4 gros de Molet d’argent pour les mettre au Tour des d. Etandars à 5£ 8s
(page 4)
Pour 3 couvre Etandars de Cuir noir doublez de serge d’aumalle feüillemorte
Livré Le Premier avril 1703
Pour Messieurs Les Officiers

Pour 38 habits complets, housses, bourses et bonets à 5 au ¼ 199 aulnes ½ Drap fort Ecarlate à la Royale
Doublures à 4 au ½ 171 aulnes Raz de St Lo Ecarlate
Renvers des bonets
5 aulnes de Velours feüillemorte
13 aulnes de chagrin feüillemorte pour faire des coiffes aux bonets
Pour les marechaux des Logis à 5 au ½ 66 aulnes Drap du Seau demi Ecarlatte
Doublures à 6 au ½ 78 aulnes Serge d’Aumalle
1 aulnes Drap du Seau feüillemorte pour les renvers de leur bonets
(page 5)
Pour doubler et housses à ¾
28 aulnes ½ de Toille rouge
9 aulnes d. pr. les Mx. De Logis
Garnitures de 38 habits à 28 agremens chaque faisant 8 au pesant 6 onces
238 aulnes Gallon d’argt.
Pour border 15 habits de cap.es à 5 au ½ 50 onces bordé d’argt.
Pour 15 housses de cap.es à 4 au 67 onces Gallon d’argt.
houpes de 23 officiers subalternes à 4 aul pesant 3 on 6 g 82 onces Gallon d’argt.
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housses des Mx des Logis 2 on 5 g 31 onces ½ gallon d’argt.

Pour 15 bonets de cap.es 5 au ¼ 30 onces ½ de Petit Gallon d’argt.
Pour 23 officiers subalternes 23 onces petit gallon d’argt.
Pour les Mx des Logis 6 onces petit gallon d’argt.
Ouppes pour 50 bonets à ½ au
25 onces frange d’argt.
38 onces Gallon d’argt. pour 50 bords de chapeaux
Pour les gantes et les boutons
63 douzaines gros boutons d’argt.
133 douz. de petits pour Vestes
(page 4)
57 onces fils d’argt. pour les boutonières des vestes
Boutons des Mt. des Logis
36 douz. gros boutons d’argent aché
42 douz. de petits
12 bourses de Taffetas noir doublées de Treilli
Contract 20 Aug. 1706 DR Lesparre [AN] :

1200 aulnes de drap de Valogne Jaune a 7lb 5s po 300 manteaux a 4 au
375 au Serge d’aumalle incarnat cramoisy pour doublures
une aulne un quart par manteau
376 au de gallon de Livrées pour les agremens des manteaux:
Contract 30. Dec. 1706 [AN]

Pour faire 120 manteaux a 4 au 480 au Drap de Vallogne jaune
Doublures a 1 au ¼ 150 au Serge d’Aumalle Incarnat
Pour 420 justaucorps et 420 bonets 2 au 1/3 980 au Drap : Dusseau jaune
Doublure a 3 au ¾ 1575 au Serge d’Aumalle incarnat
Pour les paremens des justaucorps et revers des bonets a ¾ 157 au ½ Drap : dusseau Ecarlatte
Boutons a 3d
1260 douz. gros boutons d’etain
1260 douz. dit petits pour veste
Pour 420 housses a 3/8 157 au ½ serge f : de St. Lo jaune
.......... par habit 120 au }
housses a 2 au ½ 1050 au } 1260 galon de livrée
2 coliers 12 ceinturons }
de tambours a 7 au ½ }
91 au de bordé
façon des ceinturons et des coliers de tambours
12 houppes et portes-baguettes
24 croix de tambours
420 bourses de Treilly }
420 Cravattes d’etamine noir }
420 paires de gans bl
Pour galonner les manches des 24 brigadiers a 1 on 4g chaque
36 on gallon d’argent
1 on 2g chaque pour les hautbois
420 cordons de fourniment
420 cordons de sabre } le tout en laine blanche
420 eguillettes }
420 houppes de bonet }
1 on 4g gallon d’argent pour le Tambour major
Pour Habiller Messieurs les Officiers

Pour 38 justaucorps et 38 bonets a 2 au 3/8
90 au ¼ Drap du meunier jaune
Paremens a 1/3 12 au 3/8 Drap de mounier Ecarlatte
Doubleurs a 3 au ½ 133 au Serge d’aumalle Ecarlatte
housses et bourses a ¾
28 au ½ Drap du mounier jaune
Pour 12 Mx des Logis a 2 au 3/8 28 au ½ Drap : Dusseau jaune en 5/4
Paremens et justeau et bonet 6 au Drap Dusseau Ecarlatte en 5/4
Doublures a 3 ½ 42 au Serge d’Aumalle incarnat
Housses et chaperons a ¾ 9 au Drap dusseau jaune 5/4
6 au Velours rouge pour les revers des bonets de 38 officiers
Pour galloner 15 justaucorps de capitaines a 6 on 4g. 97 on ½ gallon d’argent
Pour 33 justaucorps de Lieutenants ou cornette a 4 on 6g 109 on 2 g gallon d’argent
Pour les 38 housses et bourses a 4 au ¼ pesant chaque 4 on 4g 152 on gallon d’argent
Pour les housses et bourses de 12 Mx des Logis a 4 au ¼ 3 on 36 on Gallon d’argent
Pour 38 bonets d’officiers a 3 ¾ avec la houppe 2 on 1 g 80 on 6g gallon d’argent
Pour les 12 bonets des Mx des Logis a 3 au ¾ de passepoil d’argt et la houppe de bonet soye et argent
10 on 4g passepoil et oupp.
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Guidons:
1704 [AN] 3 covers of black leather lined feuillemorte. Cords and tassles of red, feuillemorte and white.
Were the standards also feuillemorte at this stage?
[AN]: 1704
Glans Rouge feüillemorte et argent avec six houppes et trois couleurs de
8 onces 4 gros de Molet d’argent pour les mettre au Tour des d. Etandars
Pour 3 couvre Etandars de Cuir noir doublez de serge d’aumalle feüillemorte
1708 [Beek] Lesparre, Oudenaarde: red, fringed gold, a hand coming out of clouds holding lightning bolts,
above the motto on white in gold letters agere repellare superare.

1704.03.30 Orsmael-Heylissem-Goidsenhoven, then Diest-Haelen-Sichem-Aarchot stations 3 sqn.
1706.07.29 Valenciennes 3 sqn.
1707.08.17 Chievres camp 3 sqn.
1708.12.01 Auby station 3 sqn.
1709.06.14 Saint Pol, 15.06. Aubigny 3 sqn.
1709 Malplaquet battle 3 sqn.
1710 Douay defense 3 sqn.
1710.04.02 Douay garrison 3 sqn.
1712.04.17 Peronne, 18.04. Croisy (Artois)
1712.04.26 Grevillers 3 sqn.
1712.05.06 Arras 3 sqn.
1712 Douay siege
1712 Denain siege
1713 Landau siege
1713 Freiburg siege
Regiment 52 La Bâtie, La Lande
Name:
10.12.1702 La Bâtie, Jean-Baptiste de Marnans, Comte de
1703 Verceil
15.06.1705 La Lande, du Deffant de
1713 => La Reine & Dauphin
Uniform:
1700 [Kühn 29] coat red, cuffs white, lining --, waistcoat --, breeches --, buttons --.
Guidons:
Unknown

1702 Breisach siege
1703 Landau siege
1703 Chambery taken
1703 Susa taken
1703 Aosta taken
1703 3 sqn. = 250 M.
1705 Grasse/Italy 1. & 3. sqn.
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1707 Tarataise station 3 sqn.
1707.10.26 Saint André quarters 3 sqn.
1708.08.06 Provence 3 sqn.
1708.08.04 Savoy 3 sqn.
1709.07.31 Francien camp 3 sqn.
1712.07.13 in Conflans 3 sqn.
Regiment 53 Montmain, Courtebonne, Chazelles, d‘Auzeville
10.12.1702 Montmain, Simon-Antoine de Ténarre, Chev. de

03.03.1706 Courtebonne, Marquis de*
10.10.1709 Chazelles
03.12.1712 d’Auzeville, Jean-Jaques de Queyrats
15.08.1714 + => Beauffremont & Saumery
nd
Sourches records that on 2 March 1706 the Chevalier de Monmeins (sic), colonel of Dragoons, sold his
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regiment to the young marquis of Courtebonne for 72 000 £.
Uniform:
1700 [Kühn 30] coat red, cuffs white, lining --, waistcoat --, breeches --, buttons --.
Contract 08.02.1703 [AN]:
Man: coat red lined green, cuffs green, waistcoat green, cloak red lined green, buttons white, bonnet red
edge green, necktie and pouches black, aiguillettes and sabre cords green, green cord on
powderhorn.
Drummer: as for man? with livery lace.
Maréchal de Logis: all red, silver buttons, details?.
Officers: coat completely red, buttons silver, caps red lined green velvet, silver lace,
08.02.1703 contract [AN]:

Pour 420 Justeaucorps et 420 Manteaux a 6¼ au ... 2625 au Drap f: dusseau Incarnat cramoisy fin
Paremens a 1/3 : 140 au Drap f: dusseau Vert
Doublures des Justaucorps et des manteaux a 4 au ½ 1890 au Serge d’Aumalle Verte
Pour les vestes a 2 au ¼ 945 au Serge de Mouye Verte
Boutons a 1 d ½ 630 dz. gros boutons d’étain 840 d. petits a 2 d. chaque
Pour 420 housses et bonets 315 au Serge f: de St. Lo rouge
Pour doubler les Vestes a 2 au 840 au Toille blanche
420 Sabres
408 Ceinturons a simple piqure
420 Eguilettes et cordons de sabre de laine verte
408 fournimens de Corne Garnies de Cuivre a ressons avec le cordon de laine verte
408 Bajonettes a douille
72 au de Gallon de la livrée
84 au de bordé
Pour 12 Coliers de Tambours et 12 Ceinturons garnies de houppes et leur port baguette
420 Cravattes et 420 bourses de Treilly noir
#
Doublures façons de Gallon Vert pour les housses
Note: #Cecy est concepté pour le façon des housses et des bonets ne donant point de Gallon vert pour les houpes
Pour la façon des 12 habits de Tambours
Pour habiller 38 officiers a 3 au ¾ 142 au ½ Drap fort Ecarlatte

Doublures a 7 au 266 au Serge d’Aumalle Ecarlatte
Pour les housses a ¾ 28 au ½ Drap fort Ecarlatte
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Le 2 mars 1706, le chevalier de Monmeins, colonel de dragons, vend son régiment au jeune marquis de Courtebonne 72 000 £
[Sourches, X]
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Pour les 12 Mx. des logis a 5 au 60 au Drap en 4/4 demy Ecarlatte

Doublures a 7 au 84 au Serge d’Aumalle demy Ecarlatte
Boutons de 38 habits a 2 d. 76 douz. gros boutons
Pour les vestes a 3 d. 114 d. petits boutons
Pour les 12 Mx des logis 24 d. gros boutons argt. ache
36 d. petits boutons d.
9 au ½ de Velours Vert pour les renvers des bonets des 38 officiers
Pour Gallonner 15 housses de Capitaines a 5 on chaque 75 on. Gallon d’argt.
Pour 23 officiers subalterns a 3 on. G. gros 86 on. 5 gros Gallons d’argt.
Guidons:

1702 Spain/Portugal
1705 Cadiz garrison
1705 Badajoz siege 3 sqn.
1706 OB Madrid 3 sqn.
1707 Almanza battle 3 sqn.
1710 Dauphiné
1710 Dec. OB on the Ter, Catalonia 3 sqn.
1711 Gerona siege
Regiment 54 Chastillon, Sevron
Name:
10.12.1702 Gaucher, marquis de Chastillon
13.10.1703 comte de Chastillon (Alexis-Madeleine-Rosalie, brother of above)
23.12.1713 de Servon
03.10.1714 + => Goesbriant
Uniform:
1700 [Kühn 31] coat red, cuffs yellow, lining --, waistcoat --, breeches --, buttons --. This is the only
information we have on the uniforms although the source is unclear.
Guidons:
[Lehmann] „Two guidons of dragoons in red damast embroidered in gold and silver and surrounded by a
little fringe of gold and silver. On one side the Sun in gold with the motto nec pluribus impar. On the
other side a round shield containing a tree at the base of which is something in red and blue. Taken
th
by the regiment of Anhalt Dessau at Pianezza on 5 September 1706 from the regiment of
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Chatillon.“ Charrié adds a banderoll with IN PRISCUM ASSUGRIT HONOREM.

1702 Rhine
1703 Italy
1705 Cassano battle
1705 Chivasso
1706 Calcinato
1706 Turin battle, attacked and taken prisoners while with convoy *
1707-08 Languedoc
1709 Dauphiné
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[Lehmann] „Deux guidons de dragons en damas rouge bordés d’une broderie d’or et d’argent et entourés d’une petite frange
d’or et d’argent. D’un coté, le Soleil brodé en or avec la devise nec pluribus impar. De l’autre coté, un cartouche rond contenant un
arbre au dessus duquel il y a quelque chose de rouge et bleu. Pris par le régiment d’Anhalt Dessau à Pianezza le 5 Septembre 1706
au régiment de Chatillon.
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1702-13 [Charrié] : Av.: rouge. Soleil, devise. Brodé, frangé or/argent. Rv.: rouge. Allégorie montrant dans un cartouche ovale un
arbre. Banderole avec IN PRISCUM ASSUGRIT HONOREM. En bas écu aus armes des Châtillon.
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1710 Languedoc, Sète combat

1712 Flanders, Denain, Douai, Le Quesnoy, Bouchain
1713 Rhine, Landau, Freiburg
th th
[AG vol 1972 p.204 Intendance after Fouré] incident of 5 September 1706: „On 5 of this month a large
convoy left Suza composed of 900 mules with food and 600 mules carrying meal for the camp before Turin
as well as powder, and was attacked by the enemy near Pianese. The escort of the convoy, composed of
the regiment of CHATILLON and of 500 horse under the command of the Marquis de BONNELLE, was
entirely defeated and one has no news at all of M. de Chatillon who was at the head of his regiment. Only 5
or 6 mule drivers returned to Suza where they reported that their comrades had been knocked out by the
peasants and the mules stolen.“
A later letter confirms that they were taken prisoner after being attacked by the Prussian infantry regiment of
Anhalt-Dessau, which returned the captured guidons to Berlin.
Regiment 55 Guyenne
Name:
Guyenne
27.05.1705 Guyenne Nicolas-Auguste de La Baume, Maréchal de Montrevel
01.09.1707 Guyenne Michel Ancel des Granges
16.11.1713 => Bonnelles & Espinay
Uniform:
Guidons:
Unknown

1708.05.07 OB Spain 3 sqn.
1711.07.11 OB Flanders, de Coigny 3 sqn.
1712.04.15 Maubourg-Landrescies-Cambrai camp 3 sqn.
1712.05.06 Saint Quentin 2 sqn. Capelet 1 sqn.
1712 Douai siege
1712 Bouchain siege
Regiment 56 Escorailles, Saumery, Saint-Priest, Bellisle
Name:
26.11.1705 Escorailles, François Philippe, Marquis d‘
23.03.1707 Saumery
09.07.1709 St. Priest
1712 Chevalier de Bellisle
1713 => Mestre de Camp
Uniform:
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Guidons:
Unknown

1710.07.26 Sehingen quarters 3 sqn.
1710 July 4 coy. Homburg, 2 coy. each Bitche-Fenestrangs-Bouquenom-Sarrgemünd till 01.11.10
1711.08.20 Lyon quarters
1711.06.28 Sehingen camp 3 sqn.
1711.07.14 Yochenum camp 3 sqn.
1711 July Sehingen camp 3 sqn.
1711.08.03 zur Armee Berwicks 3 sqn.
1712 OB sth. Germany de Beson, camp Kehl 3 sqn.
1713.01.16 quarters 1 sqn. Ottmarshausen-1 Bautzenheim-1 Rumersheim
1713.09.18 Hatheim quarters 3 sqn.
1713 Landau siege
1713 Freiburg siege
Regiment 57 Espinay, d‘Houdetot
26.11.1705 Espinay, François-Rodrigue Deshayes, Marquis d‘

31.05.1710 d’Houdetot, Chev.
1713 => Royal
Uniform:
[Golberg] (in „Bemalungsangaben“) all red with white buttons and lace.
1700 [Kühn 34] coat red, cuffs red, lining red, waistcoat red, breeches red, buttons white.
1700 [Condray] coat red, cuffs, waistcoat, lining and breeches red, buttons, lace and musicians wings
white, Officers buttons and lace gold, shabraque red with white border.
Guidons:
[Fouré] Standard: red with sun surrounded by two black circles, reverse chimera, white on green ground.
Picture horizontal, edge gold.
[Golberg after Beek] (in „Bemalungsangaben“) red with sun and nec pluribus impar in gold and on the
reverse in red a white chimera on a terrace surmounted by the motto num sparget in midem.
1712 [Charrié] : Av. : rouge à bordure blanche. Soleil, devise, Brodé, frangé d’or (motifs et banderole
parallèls à la hampe). Rv. : rouge à bordure blanche. Allegorie d’un dragon couché. Banderole avec
NUNC SE SPARGIT IN IDEM (incorrectly assigned to Beauffremont).

1706 Ramillies battle
1707.08.17 Chievres camp 3 sqn.
1708 Oudenaarde battle
1709.06.06 Merville camp 3 sqn.
1710.08.31 Ypern garrison 3 sqn.
1710.10.03 Pont Labesse camp 3 sqn.
1712.05.06 Le Quesnoy quarters 3 sqn.
1712.06.19 Le Quesnoy defense 303 M. 7 im Hospital
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Regiment 58 Parpailles, Flandres
Raised: 12.06.1708 Susane: 603 Tessin: 1708/1 Fouré:63 Plate --
Name:
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12.06.1708 de Parpailles (created from free companies) also called Flandres
1713 => Lautrec, Goesbriant
Uniform:
1700 [Kühn 35] coat red, cuffs blue, lining blue, waistcoat buff, breeches buff, buttons white, shabraque
red edged blue.
Guidons:
Unknown

1711.05.20 Ypern garrison 400 men 3 sqn.
Regiment 59 Saint Hermine, Saint Chaumont
Raised: ??.10.1690 Susane: ??? Tessin: ------ Fouré: -- Plate --
Name:
-1705 Saint Hermine
1705 Saint Chaumont
Uniform:
Unknown
Guidons:
Unknown

1702-1703 Winter quarters 3 sqn.
1703 early Mouzon quarters
1705.05.24 Rohrweiler 2sqn., Herrlisheim 1 sqn. quarters Mosel
1705.06.15 OB Rhine 3 sqn.
1705.07.03 OB Rhine 2 sqn.
1707.08.17 Chierres camp 3 sqn.
1708.10.08 New Polder station 3 sqn.
1708.11.12 Furembach station 3 sqn.
1708.06.13 Bouchain quarters 3 sqn.
1709.07.24 Saint Sauve camp, 6 coy., Condé 6 coy. quarters
1711.07.11 OB de Coigny Flanders 3 sqn.
1711.04.15 Landrecies-Cambrai camp 3 sqn.
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[Sapin-Lignières] n°31: 1702 compagnie franche de Parpaille (fusiliers) 1704 compagnie franche de Parpaille (dragons) destinée à
la frontière de Flandre
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Index of names
Albert .....................................................Page 24 Plate 08

Anvoile .....................................................Page 52 Plate --
Arrincourt .....................................................Page 53 Plate --
Artois .....................................................Page 53 Plate --
Asfeld .....................................................Page 32 Plate 12
Asfeld Étranger .....................................................Page 44 Plate 17
Aubigné, d' .....................................................Page 58 Plate 27
Auzeville, d' .....................................................Page 62 Plate 28
Avaray, d' .....................................................Page 37 Plate 15
Averne, d' .....................................................Page 43 Plate --
Aydes, des .....................................................Page 43 Plate --
Barbezières .....................................................Page 20 Plate 06
Barreau .....................................................Page 43 Plate --
Beauffremont .....................................................Page 17 Plate 05
Belabre .....................................................Page 30 Plate 11
Bellisle .....................................................Page 20 Plate 06
Bellisle .....................................................Page 64 Plate --
Bonnelles .....................................................Page 20 Plate 06
Boufflers .....................................................Page 44 Plate --
Bozelli .....................................................Page 56 Plate --
Bragalonne .....................................................Page 52 Plate --
Bretagne .....................................................Page 46 Plate 19
Breteuil .....................................................Page 44 Plate --
Bretoncelles .....................................................Page 42 Plate --
Breuil, Du .....................................................Page 43 Plate --
Bâtie, La .....................................................Page 61 Plate --
Catinat de Saint-Gratien ............................................Page 39 Plate --
Cayla .....................................................Page 34 Plate 13
Caylus .....................................................Page 26 Plate 09
Caylus .....................................................Page 28 Plate 10
Chantran .....................................................Page 40 Plate --
Chastillon .....................................................Page 63 Plate 29
Chazelles .....................................................Page 62 Plate 28
Chevilly .....................................................Page 28 Plate 10
Châtillon .....................................................Page 34 Plate 13
Cilly .....................................................Page 39 Plate --
Cogneux, Le .....................................................Page 51 Plate --
Colonel Général .....................................................Page 11 Plate 02
Conflans .....................................................Page 47 Plate --
Courtebonne .....................................................Page 62 Plate 28
Dauphin .....................................................Page 15 Plate 04
Despeaux .....................................................Page 47 Plate --
Escorailles, d' .....................................................Page 64 Plate --
Escorailles, d' .....................................................Page 46 Plate 18
Espinay .....................................................Page 65 Plate 30
Estrades, d' .....................................................Page 20 Plate 06
Fimarcon .....................................................Page 34 Plate 13
Flandres .....................................................Page 66 Plate --
Fontbeausard .....................................................Page 48 Plate 20
Frontenay .....................................................Page 40 Plate --
Ganges-Cadet .....................................................Page 46 Plate --
Gaubert .....................................................Page 24 Plate 08
Gohas .....................................................Page 41 Plate --
Gouffier .....................................................Page 51 Plate 24
Grammont .....................................................Page 17 Plate 05
Grammont .....................................................Page 46 Plate 18
Grammont-Fallon .....................................................Page 40 Plate --
Granville .....................................................Page 58 Plate 27
Guyenne .....................................................Page 64 Plate --
Gévaudan .....................................................Page 42 Plate --
Hautefort, d' .....................................................Page 32 Plate 12
Havrincourt .....................................................Page 53 Plate --
Houdetot, d' .....................................................Page 65 Plate 30
Héron, Du .....................................................Page 38 Plate --
Héron, du .....................................................Page 24 Plate 08
La Lande .....................................................Page 26 Plate 09
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La Lande .....................................................Page 61 Plate --

La Reine .....................................................Page 13 Plate 03
Langedoc I .....................................................Page 35 Plate 14
Langedoc II .....................................................Page 50 Plate 22
Lautrec .....................................................Page 28 Plate 10
Lesparre .....................................................Page 58 Plate 27
Listenois .....................................................Page 17 Plate 05
Mestre de Camp Général ..............................................Page 22 Plate 07
Montalet .....................................................Page 52 Plate --
Montmain .....................................................Page 62 Plate 28
Morsan .....................................................Page 53 Plate --
Parpailles .....................................................Page 66 Plate --
Payssac .....................................................Page 17 Plate 05
Payssac .....................................................Page 51 Plate 24
Peysonnel .....................................................Page 24 Plate 08
Poitiers .....................................................Page 47 Plate --
Pomponne .....................................................Page 48 Plate 20
Pourrières .....................................................Page 42 Plate --
Prie, de .....................................................Page 56 Plate 25
Pézeux .....................................................Page 57 Plate 26
Rannes .....................................................Page 51 Plate --
Reine d'Angleterre ..................................................Page 55 Plate --
Rohan-Chabot .....................................................Page 49 Plate 21
Roi d'Angleterre ....................................................Page 54 Plate --
Roi, Du .................................................... Page 9 Plate 01
Rouvoy .....................................................Page 37 Plate 15
Roux .....................................................Page 43 Plate --
Royal .................................................... Page 9 Plate 01
Sailly .....................................................Page 40 Plate --
Saint Chaumont .....................................................Page 66 Plate --
Saint Hermine .....................................................Page 66 Plate --
Saint-Chamond .....................................................Page 48 Plate 20
Saint-Frémont .....................................................Page 39 Plate --
Saint-Hermine .....................................................Page 49 Plate 21
Saint-Priest .....................................................Page 64 Plate --
Saint-Sernin .....................................................Page 55 Plate --
Salle, La .....................................................Page 47 Plate --
Saumery .....................................................Page 32 Plate 12
Saumery .....................................................Page 64 Plate --
Sennectère .....................................................Page 30 Plate 11
Sevron .....................................................Page 63 Plate 29
Silly .....................................................Page 51 Plate 24
Tessé .....................................................Page 30 Plate 11
Tilladet .....................................................Page 34 Plate 13
Valençay .....................................................Page 54 Plate --
Vassé .....................................................Page 42 Plate --
Verac .....................................................Page 26 Plate 09
Verchère, de La .....................................................Page 47 Plate --
Verrue .....................................................Page 51 Plate 23
Vidame .....................................................Page 24 Plate 08
Vidame .....................................................Page 42 Plate --
Villegagnon .....................................................Page 56 Plate 25
Vitry .....................................................Page 56 Plate 25
Vrillière, La .....................................................Page 37 Plate 15
Wartigny .....................................................Page 41 Plate 16
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GUIDONS AND UNIFORMS

First Edition 2001

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Regiment 55 Guyenne .........................................................................................................................................64

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General Notes on Uniforms

Regiment 01 Royal, Du Roi

Raised: 14.06.1656 Susane: 323 Tessin: 1656/5 Fouré: 4 Plate 01

Mestres de camp-lieutenants & Colonels

1698 [Gal]: blue faced red, buttons tin

yyyy.mm.dd Actions, Quarters and Camps

1707.06.25 Gemblours camp 3 sqn.

Regiment 02 Colonel Général

Raised: 02.04.1668 Susane: 397 Tessin: 1668/6 Fouré: 5 Plate 02

Mestres de camp-commandants & Colonels

yyyy.mm.dd Actions, Quarters and Camps

Raised: 14.09.1673 Susane: 429 Tessin: 1673/14 Fouré: 6 Plate 03

yyyy.mm.dd Actions, Quarters and Camps

Raised: 14.09.1673 Susane: 430 Tessin: 1673/15 Fouré: 7 Plate 04

yyyy.mm.dd Actions, Quarters and Camps

Regiment 05 Grammont, Payssac, Listenois, Beauffremont

Raised: 14.09.1673 Susane: 431 Tessin: 1673/16 Fouré: 8 Plate 05

yyyy.mm.dd Actions, Quarters and Camps

Regiment 06 Barbezières, d’Estrades, Bellisle, Bonnelles

Raised: 14.09.1673 Susane: 432 Tessin: 1673/17 Fouré: 9 Plate 06

Contract of 11.12.1712 [AN]:

Contract of 12.12.1712 [AN] :

yyyy.mm.dd Actions, Quarters and Camps

1702 Borgoforte taken

Regiment 07 Mestre de Camp Général

Raised: 25.03.1674 Susane: 455 Tessin: 1674/17 Fouré: 10 Plate 07

yyyy.mm.dd Actions, Quarters and Camps

Regiment 08 Peysonnel, Gaubert, Albert, Vidame, Du Heron

Raised: 08.12.1674 Susane: 465 Tessin: 1674/18 Fouré: 11 Plate 08

yyyy.mm.dd Actions, Quarters and Camps

Regiment 09 La Lande, Verac, Caylus

Raised: 01.01.1675 Susane: 468 Tessin: 1675/5 Fouré: 12 Plate 09

yyyy.mm.dd Actions, Quarters and Camps

1701 Carpi combat

Regiment 10 Chevilly, Caylus, Lautrec

Raised: 05.02.1675 Susane: 470 Tessin: 1675/6 Fouré: 13 Plate 10

1721 [MacCarthy-Delaistre] horse furniture: red without lace, cloak red.

yyyy.mm.dd Actions, Quarters and Camps

Regiment 11 Tessé, Sennectère, Belabre

Raised: 11.12.1675 Susane: 474 Tessin: 1675/7 Fouré: 14 Plate 11

yyyy.mm.dd Actions, Quarters and Camps

1713 Freiburg siege

Regiment 12 Asfeld, d’Hautefort, Saumery

Raised: 13.03.1676 Susane: 481 Tessin: 1676/7 Fouré: 16 Plate 12

yyyy.mm.dd Actions, Quarters and Camps

Regiment 13 Fimarcon, Cayla, Tilladet, Châtillon

Raised: 04.10.1676 Susane: 482 Tessin: 1676/8 Fouré: 15 Plate 13

yyyy.mm.dd Actions, Quarters and Camps

Raised: 04.10.1676 Susane: 483 Tessin: 1676/9 Fouré: 17 Plate 14

yyyy.mm.dd Actions, Quarters and Camps

1704 Trino entrenchments storm 3 sqn.

Regiment 15 d’Avaray, La Vrillière, Rouvoy

Raised: 20.08.1688 Susane: 512 Tessin: 1688/45 Fouré: 23 Plate 15

Envoyé le 29 mars 1704

yyyy.mm.dd Actions, Quarters and Camps

Raised: 20.08.1688 Susane: 513 Tessin: 1688/46 Fouré: 24 Plate --

Raised: 25.10.1689 Susane: _ Tessin: / Fouré: 36 Plate --