" Uniformes de l'armée royale française (1780)" Topic
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| 42flanker | 03 Jun 2019 10:12 p.m. PST |
'Uniformes de l'armée royale française
link A bound m/s volume from the Biblioteque Nationale of handsome watercolour portraits (some incomplete) of 68 'regiments d'infanterie française ou nationaux' (all grenadiers), plus 8 German, 11 Swiss, 5 Irish or Scots, 2 Italian, and so on through the cavalry regiments to 'separates' inc. the Garde Suisse and Grenadiers Royaux, etc. The uniforms appear to be from the 1760s rather than illustrating the 1779 Ordnance (which would have been quick work). The regiments do not have territorial titles, only the current colonel's name. |
de Ligne  | 04 Jun 2019 2:32 a.m. PST |
A great find. The problem is one of dating and it is certainly post-SYW so (like you) I would suggest late 1760s to 1770s. Effectively a peace-time representation. |
Brechtel198  | 04 Jun 2019 3:28 a.m. PST |
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| Lilian | 04 Jun 2019 4:49 a.m. PST |
the 6 blue-uniformed short-lived Chevau-légers Regiments were raised in 1779 and disbanded in 1784, he added a seventh giving the «n°4» with a green-uniformed unit Conflans (??) curious to not say bizarre presentation, all the Cavalry regiments are named Cuirassiers when only the Cuirassiers du Roi had such title and others bizarre pictures, way to number the units etc the "guard of the Militia" (?) with green breeches and indefinable (dark-raspberry-brownish?) colored uniform…
the Artillery with white breeches and the red has gone or becoming optional bizarre, bizarre |
| evilgong | 04 Jun 2019 5:53 p.m. PST |
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 Der Alte Fritz | 05 Jun 2019 5:31 p.m. PST |
Through the SYW the French Cavalrie wore front cuirasses in battle so they are technically Cuirassiers. The Cuirassiers du Roi were the only regime to wear both front and back armor. Post SYW- I'm not familiar with the period, but I'm assuming that the Cavalrie regiments retained the cuirasse up,to,the AWI period.at some point the cuirasse was abandoned |
| von Winterfeldt | 09 Jun 2019 4:50 a.m. PST |
It seems to be about 1776 regulation |
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