The French GUARDS are divided into those within, and those without, the palace.—The first are the gardes du corps, or body-guards; which consist of four companies, the first of which companies was anciently Scots. See Scots GUARDS, infra.
The guards without are the Gens d'Armes, light horse, musqueteers, and two other regiments, the one of which is French and the other Swiss.
New arrangements, however, have taken place in this department as well as others since the late revolution.