The Régiment Royal–La Marine was an infantry regiment of the Kingdom of France, established in 1669. The regiment was directly involved in the Day of the Tiles, which took place in Grenoble on June 7, 1788. The last unit of the regiment was incorporated into the 23 demi-brigade on March 21, 1797 and the regiment ceased to exist.
Lineage
December 20, 1669 : creation of Régiment Royal–La Marine.
August 4, 1676 : Louis-Fauste de Brichanteau, marquis of Nangis, brigadier since April 26, 1689, † 22 août 1690
September 3, 1690 : Louis Armand de Brichanteau, marquis of Nangis, brigadier le since October 26, 1704, maréchal de camp since June 19, 1708, lieutenant général since March 8, 1718, maréchal de France since February 11, 1741, † October 8, 1742
September 12, 1699 : Charles d’Angennes de Poigny, count of Angennes de Poigny, brigadier since June 19, 1708, † September 11, 1709
October 1, 1709 : Louis Desmarets de Maillebois, baron of Châteauneuf, brigadier since February 1, 1719
January 10, 1727 : Louis de Pardaillan de Gondrin, marquis, then duke of Antin, brigadier since August 1, 1734, maréchal de camp since February 10, 1743, † December 9, 1743
March 10, 1734 : Louis de Durfort Duras, knight, then count, then duke of Lorges, brigadier since February 20, 1743, maréchal de camp since June 1, 1745, lieutenant général since May 10, 1748, † December 10, 1775
May 26, 1745 : Joachim de Dreux, knight, then marquis of Dreux, brigadier since 1745, Maréchal de camp since 1748, lieutenant général since December 17, 1759
February 1, 1749 : Louis-Marie-François-Gaston de Lévis, marquis of Mirepoix, brigadier since July 13, 1756
July 28, 1759 : Louis-Marie de Chapelle, count of Jumilhac
December 1, 1762 : Charles-Emmanuel, knight of Saint-Mauris
June 22, 1767 : Philippe-Mathieu-Marie, count of Lons
January 1, 1784 : Agricole-Marie de Merle, marquis of Ambert
July 25, 1791 : Marie-Joseph-Gabriel-Apollinaire Morard d’Arcès
November 23, 1791 : Henri-François Morille de Boulard.
Campaigns and battles
In December 1669, Colbert - who assumed command of naval services after having nominated in November Louis de Bourbon, the legitimate heir of Louis XIV, aged only ten years, to the Admiralty of France - enacted an ordinance which created two regiments destined for naval service on the vessels and in the colonies. The regiments were designated « Royal-La Marine » and « Amiral ». The regiment Royal-La Marine was attached to the Flotte du Ponant. The Royal Navy in need of quality marine offices, nominated the possibility of having naval officers of the two regiment as marine officers. In the same spirit on December 26, 1669, was constituted, a « Garde de Monsieur l'Amiral », even referred as « Garde de Monsieur le comte de Vermandois », which was created to become a crucible of marine officers. With Louvois intervention, a new regulation of July 1670 passed the nomination of the officers of these two regiments - attached to the navy since creation - to the authority of the ministère de la Guerre, while also amending the possibility to pass naval officers to form the officers marine corps. Such a new regulation was the first passage of the "bigor" of the navy to the French Army. The only service at sea of these two regiments was brief. In August 1670, they embarked on the fleet of Duquesne on their way to the Canary Islands and Green Cape, and were back in Brest on March 11, 1671. On August 13, 1704, while through the decisive Battle of Blenheim, during the War of the Spanish Succession, Le Royal-La Marine was part of the reserve army of maréchal Marsin, foreseen to support the Franco-Bavarian, placed under the command of Camille d'Hostun, duc de Tallard and Maximilian II Emanuel, Elector of Bavaria. In 1720-1721, the regiment garrisoned at Souppes sur Loing and participated to the construction of the canal du Loing. On June 27, 1743, the regiment participated to the Battle of Dettingen. The following year, the regiment participated to the Siege of Menin, the Siege of Ypres then Furnes, prior to joining the army of maréchal de Saxe at Courtrai. From 1779 to 1782, the régiment Royal-La Marine participated to operations in Antilles The 1st battalion of the 60th Line Infantry Regiment conducted the campaign of 1794 at the armée de l'Ouest ; the 2e, embarked at La Rochelle in 1792 for Saint-Domingue, where garrison would be held until 1794.
Personalities having served in the Régiment Royal–La Marine
Joseph Claude Vincent de Kermoysan, Breton knight, was Captain of the Regiment between 1740 and 1750.
