Garde de Paris

[Smokehammer]

Does anyone have any information about this unit?It keeps turning up in random OOBs and looks interesting.



I can’t seem to find any references too it. What was it historically? A regiment made up of the Paris national guard, or some sort of volunteer infantry unit, like the guards of honour in the cavalry.

[EricJ]

Well, the uniform of this unit is green, right?
So I think that it is the unit which was responsible for maintaining order in Paris. It was composed of former soldiers, veterans of 5 campaigns but younger than 40. By 1805, this unit will be used to strengthen the Grande Armée : they were at Dantzig, Friedland, Burgos... This unit was disbanded in 1812, because they were involved in the maret's conspiration.
Regards, EricJ

[mccourt]

Some details here which might be of interest http://www.napoleon-series.org/cgi-bin/forum/archive2008_config.pl?md=read;id=87236

1st Regiment http://www.historex.com/montage/im/im012.jpg

2nd Regiment http://www.historex.com/montage/im/im013.jpg

Tom