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The Royal Watch, in French guet royal, was a French police unit founded in December 1254 by King Louis IX. It was officially merged with the "Lieutenancy...

Guard took over this role. In fact, the last commander of the Guet royal (Chevalier du Guet), de La Rothière, was elected to head the National Guard in...

provided by two different corps of police; the Garde de Paris and the Guet Royal, or royal watchmen. Both organizations were under the command of the Lieutenant...

competed within Paris: police chiefs, archers and freemen of the guet royal (royal watch), the company of the criminal lieutenant, and the Provost of...

was later used as a lookout for fire prevention, similar to the guet royal and guet bourgeois ("burgess watch") established in France, which lasted until...

against the people. While the guet (watch) of Gardes du Corps on palace duty overnight had shown courage in protecting the royal family, the main body of the...

Wacht! Wacht! (Dutch) Vahid! Vahid! (Estonian) Vartijat, hoi! (Finnish) Au Guet ! (French) Wachen! Wachen! (German) שומרים! שומרים! (Shomrim! Shomrim!) (Hebrew)...

points around Paris. The two guets were under the authority of the Provost of Paris and commanded by the Chevalier du guet. The name of the first one,...

colony. Guët 1893, p. 140. Guët 1893, pp. 141–143. Guët 1893, p. 143. Guët 1893, p. 144. Spencer 2007, p. 180. Longuemare 1902, p. 195. Roux. Guët 1893,...

of James Saumarez, 1st Baron de Saumarez GCB, an admiral of the British Royal Navy. The church is thought to be built on an ancient fort, hence the name...

List of largest optical telescopes in the 18th century Caplan, James; Le Guet Tully, Françoise (2008). "2008JHA....39..131C Page 131". Journal for the...

crypt of agonies 45 La griffe du vampire The claw of the vampire 46 Mortel guet-apens Deadly ambush 47 Missouri, etat d'alerte Missouri, state of alert 48...

separate force of about two hundred and forty men, composed of the Chevalier du guet and his sergeants. The earlier night watch, which had consisted of members...

1869, he exercised his droit de retraite to buy Saumarez Park and the Le Guet estate at Castel on the island of Guernsey, after his father, the third Baron...

nostre Maison, & décharge de toutes Tailles & Curatelles, ensemble de tout Guet & Garde. Voulons que ledit Art de Danse soit & demeure pour toûjours exemt...

support for counter revolutionaries. Before being transferred to the Tour du Guet, the citadel is where Claude Chappe performed the first tests of his semaphore...

Louis Ducatel; avec une préface d'Emile Baes, Paris, Éditions de la Tour du Guet, 1952 Royer, Louis-Charles, Vaudou : roman de moeurs martiniquaises, 1944...

baldeqin gules (red), doubled ermine motto: until the 19th century: Hie guet Zollere allwege (We were always good Zollern) from the 19th century onwards:...

Asse and Liège. His work on the atrocities was published posthumously as Le Guet-apens prussien en Belgique ("The Prussian Ambush in Belgium"). Cardinal Désiré-Joseph...

primarily the royal family and their subjects. However, he returned to Paris right before his death on 19 February 1923. 1864 : Le Guet-à-pens 1866 :...