The three regiments had the following common features, except as noted later.
Black facing for collar, cuffs, and lapels. Red turnbacks.
White breeches and waistcoats. Black gaiters.
Yellow metal work.
Coffee wood work.
The Prince de Condé Noble Regiment
had velvet facings, straw colored breeches and waistcoats, and, only for full dress, white gaiters.
The Prince Hohenlohe German Regiment
was identical to the
Duc de Bourbon Grenadier Regiment,
except for white metal work (buttons and mitre plates).
Headgear:
The Noble Regiment had hats with straight gold lace, no cockade, and
a gold button for all. The regiment was composed of nobles, and the lace was normally
an officer distinction.
The Grenadier Regiment mitre had a straw bag, crimson band, and black and
yellow seam piping. Either the troop were all considered grenadiers,
or fusilier mitres followed a similar scheme.
Officer hats were like the Noble Regiment.
Simple musketeers of the German regiment had a hat without lace or cockade, but a silver button.
Grenadiers would have presumably had the same pattern as the Grenadier Regimemt but with silver
metal work. However, Haythronthwaite specifies a dk.green bag.
Lace:
All boutonnieres were squared at the button hole, and pointed, with or without
tassel, at the other end. Stripes were zigzagged such that it appeared
as a connected chain of X's (i.e. XXXX).
The Noble Regiment had 7 on each lapel (the 7th at an angle under the collar.),
2 on each side just below the lapel, two on the cuff flap above the cuff, 3 vertically
on each pocket flap, and 1 on each side at the back waist above the tails.
(This is a lavish display, more than the L.G. regiments. The illustrations show
7+2 on the coat front and 2 on the cuff for officiers, and 7 and 2 on the cuff
for the troop, so there may be some doubt.)
Lace was hammered gold without tassels for all.
The Grenadiers had two boutonnieres on the cuff flap above the cuff.
Tasseled lace was yellow for the troop, and gold with a crimson stripe for officiers.
The German Regiment presumably had the same,
although Haythornthwaite gives white boutonnieres.
Flags
All colored flags had a rectilinear cross superimposed upon the flared "cross"
of the 1797 standard.
All flags had a gold fleur-de-lys in each corner, top oriented toward the center.
The Noble Regiment had an all white white flag,
and colored flags with a black cross on a white field.
The Grenadier Regiment had an orange cross on the white flag,
and an orange cross on the blue field for the colored flags.
The German Regiment had a blue cross on the white flag,
and black cross on a straw field for the colored flags.
