The 3e Regiment of Gardes d' Honneur was raised from the 10th (Tolouse ), 11th (Bourdeaux ), 12th (La Rochelle), 13th (Renne ), 20th ( Périgueux), 22nd ( Tours), 29th (Florence ), and 31st (Groningen) Military Divisions.
A commemorative plaque on the battlefield marks the involvement of the 3rd Regiment in the Battle of Château-Thierry on February 12, 1814.
The 3e Regiment also fought at Leipzig, Hannau, Saverne, Meaux, Craonne, Reims, Landau, and Paris.
The Colonel of this regiment was Philippe-Paul Segur. He was born in Paris in 1780, became a Colonel in the Chevau-Legers of the Gardes de Paris in 1809, and a Count of the Empire in that year as well. He was promoted to General de Brigade in 1812. In 1824 Ségur published a book on the Russian campaign of 1812, which was not very flattering to Napoleon. General Gaspar Gougaud, who had also served on the Imperial staff in Russia in 1812, severely criticized. Ségur challenged Gourgaud to a duel which was accepted, though he lost the duel and was wounded by Gourgaud. He survived to publish several more books, and die in Paris at the age of 92, in 1873.
The Regiment was disbanded in Tours on July 17, 1814.
Nice paint job! Segur’s book on the Russian campaign was one of the first Napoleonic books I checked out from the county library at age 14. I still remember the laminated cover of the paperback.
ReplyDeleteA lovely looking unit, very nicely done.
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