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The chart entitled Tableau Militaire des Drapeaux, Etendarts et Guidons des Troupes au Service de la France, les Années de leur Création et les Noms de Mrs les Commandants, les Colonels d'Infanterie et les Mestres de Camp de Cavalerie et de Dragons pour l'Année 1771 was designed avec privilège du Roy in Paris chez le Sieur Chaligny, Cour des grandes écuries du Roy. Aux Thuileries.
A fac-simile of the chart was published in 1874 by Desjardins (Recherche sur les drapeaux français, plates XIII-XLII) [djg74]. Desjardins explains that the Cabinet des Estampes of the National Library keeps a black-and-white copy of the chart, whereas a coloured copy is kept in the Archives Départementales de Seine-et-Oise (A.1544). The coloured version corrected the black-and-white version and was made for the Dauphin, later King Louis XVI. The chart shows the arms of the Dauphin on top and has two vertical blue mergins charged with dolphins and fleurs-de-lis. On the back of the chart, the District Commissioners of Versailles wrote that it was found in 1790 during the inventory of the castle of Versailles, hanging on the wall of the small staircase of the Queen's apartments.
A high-definition image of the coloured chart is available on the website of the Archives Départementales des Yvelines.
Chaligny's chart lists 93 infantry regiments, with one vacant (40.) and the seven artillery regiments with the same number (47.).
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1. Picardie 2. Champagne 3. Navarre 4. Piémont 5. Normandie 6. Marine 7. Bourbonnais 8. Béarn 9. Auvergne 10. Flandre 11. Guyenne 12. Le Roi 13. Royal 14. Poitou 15. Lyonnais 16. Le Dauphin 17. Aunis 18. Touraine 19. Aquitaine 20. Eu 21. Dauphiné 22. Ile de France 23. Soissonnais 24. La Reine 25. Limousin 26. Royal Vessels 27. Orléans 28. La Couronne 29. Bretagne 30. Lorraine 31. Artois 32. Berry 33. Hainaut |
34. La Sarre 35. La Fère 36. Alsace (German) 37. Royal Roussillon 38. Condé 39. Bourbon 40. (vacant) 41. Beauvaisis 42. Rouergue 43. Bourgogne 44. Royal Marine 45. Vermandois 46. Anhalt (German) 47. Royal Artillerie 47. Besançon 47. Strasbourg 47. Metz 47. Toul 47. Auxonne 47. Grenoble 48. Royal Italien 49. Erlach (Swiss) 50. Boccard (Swiss) 51. Sonnenberg (Swiss) 52. Castellas (Swiss) 53. Languedoc 54. Beauce 55. Waldner (Swiss) 56. Médoc 57. Vivarais 58. Vexin 59. Royal Comtois 60. Beaujolais |
61. Provence 62. Jenner (Swiss) 63. La Marck (German) 64. Penthièvre 65. Boulonnais 66. Angoumois 67. Périgord 68. Saintonge 69. Forez 70. Cambrésis 71. Tournaisis 72. Foix 73. Quercy 74. Marche 75. Diesbach (Swiss) 76. Courten (Swiss) 77. Bulkeley (Irish) 78. Clare (Irish) 79. Dillon (Irish) 80. Royal Suédois (German) 81. Chartres 82. Conti 83. Enghien 84. Walsh (Irish) 85. Berwick (Irish) 86. Royal Bavière (German) 87. Salis (Grisons) 88. Royal Corse 89. Nassau (German) 90. Lochmann (Swiss) 91. Bouillon 92. Royal Deux-Ponts (German) 93. Eptingen (Swiss) |
In 1882, L. Mouillard published Armée française. Les régiments sous Louis XV. Constitution de tous les corps de troupe à la solde de France pendant les guerres de succession à l'Empire et de Sept Ans (Dumaine, Paris). The book contains 47 plates of uniforms and flags.
The plates are shown on the Praetiriti Fides, Exemplumque Futuri website.
There are minor differences with the table given above for the French regiments: Béarn and Bourbonnais are swapped (7. and 8. respectively); 40. is given as Grenadiers de France; 47. is listed as Royal Artillerie only; and Enghien is listed as 85.
There are also a few discrepancies concerning the foreign regiments. Mouillard calls 51. Pfeiffer; 66. La Marck; 77. Diesbach on one plate and Bulkeley on another one; 78. Curten on one plate and Clare on another one; 83. Booth; 84. Fitz James; and 91. Ardennes.
Ivan Sache, 4 March 2006
Arnaud Bunel (Vexillologie militaire européenne) lists 107 line infantry regiments in 1789, five of them being vacant.
The list of these regiments, the names of their officers and the places where they stationed can be found in État Militaire de la France pour 1789 (31st edition, by M. de Roussel, published by Onfroy, Paris). According to the preface of the book, the État Militaire was released every year on 1 May; corrections had to be sent to Roussel or Onfroy before the 15 February. Most of the chapters of the État Militaire 1789 are available online on the Napoleon Series website.
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1. Colonel Général 2. Picardie 3. Piémont 4. Provence 5. Navarre 6. Armagnac 7. Champagne 8. Austrasie 9. Normandie 10. Neustrie 11. Marine 12. Auxerrois 13. Bourbonnais 14. Forez 15. Béarn 16. Agénois 17. Auvergne 18. Royal Auvergne 19. Flandre 20. Cambrésis 21. Guyenne 22. Viennois 23. Le Roi 24. Royal 25. Brie 26. Poitou 27. Bresse 28. Lyonnais 29. Maine 30. Le Dauphin 31. Perche 32. Aunis 33. Bassigny 34. Touraine 35. Angoulême 36. Aquitaine |
37. Anjou 38. Turenne 39. Dauphiné 40. Île de France 41. Soissonnais 42. La Reine 43. Limousin 44. Royal Vaisseaux 45. Orléans 46. La Couronne 47. Bretagne 48. Lorraine 49. Artois 50. Vintimille 51. Hainaut 52. La Sarre 53. La Fère 54. Alsace (German) 55. Royal Roussillon 56. Condé 57. Bourbon 58. Beauvaisis 59. Rouergue 60. Bourgogne 61. Royal Marine 62. Vermandois 63. Salm-Salm (German) 64. (vacant) 65. Ernest (Swiss) 66. Salis (Swiss) 67. (vacant) 68. Sonnenberg (Swiss) 69. Castellas (Swiss) 70. Languedoc 71. Beauce 72. Vigier (Swiss) |
73. Médoc 74. Vivarais 75. Vexin 76. Royal Comtois 77. Beaujolais 78. Monsieur 79. Châteauvieux (Swiss) 80. La Marck (German) 81. Penthièvre 82. Boulonnais 83. Angoumois 84. Conti 85. Saintonge 86. Foix 87. Rohan 88. Diesbach (Swiss) 89. Courten (Swiss) 90. Dillon (Irish) 91. Berwick (Irish) 92. Royal Suédois (German) 93. Chartres 94. Barrois 95. Walsh (Irish) 96. Enghien 97. Royal Hesse-Darmstadt (German) 98. (vacant) 99. Salis (Grisons) 100. (vacant) 101. Nassau (German) 102. Steiner (Swiss) 103. Bouillon (German) 104. Royal Deux-Ponts (German) 105. Reinach (Swiss) 106. (vacant) 107. Royal Liégeois (Liège) |
Ivan Sache, 3 March 2006
