34th Infantry Regiment (France)

The 34th Infantry Regiment was a French infantry regiment created during the French Revolution out of the Angoulême Regiment of the Ancien Régime.

Names

  • 29 April 1625 : raised as the régiment de Plessis-Joigny
  • 26 May 1626 : re-formed
  • 28 July 1627 : the régiment de Plessis-Joigny was re-formed
  • October 1632 : renamed the régiment de Sainte-Offange
  • 19 July 1635 : renamed the régiment de La Frézelière
  • May 1636 : renamed the régiment de Touraine
  • December 1650 : renamed the régiment d'Amboise
  • 1653 : Renamed the régiment de Kercado
  • 1 July 1654 : Renamed the régiment de Chambellay
  • 1667 : Renamed the régiment de Montaigu
  • 1673 : Renamed the régiment de Touraine
  • 26 April 1775 : creation of the régiment de Savoie-Carignan out of the 2nd and 4th battalions of the Touraine Regiment
  • 20 November 1785 : renamed the régiment d'Angoulême
  • 1 January 1791 : renamed the 34th Line Infantry Regiment
  • 1793 : Merged and renamed the 34th Demi-Brigade of the First Formation
  • 1796 : Creation of the 34th Demi-Brigade of the Second Formation
  • 1803 : Creation of the 34th Line Infantry Regiment
  • 16 July 1815 : demobbed with the rest of Napoleon's army after the Hundred Days
  • 11 August 1815 : creation of the Bas-Rhin Legion'
  • 1820 : Bas-Rhin Legion merged and renamed the 34th Line Infantry Regiment
  • 1887 : Renamed the 34th Infantry Regiment
  • 1914 : Renamed the 234th Infantry Regiment' on mobilisation
  • 1922 : Disbanded
  • 1939 : Re-formed
  • 1940 : Disbanded
  • 1 January 1945 : Re-formed
  • 30 November 1945 : Disbanded
  • 1978 : Re-formed
  • 29 November 1997 : Disbanded


Veterans of the regiment

  • Marcel Canguilhem (1895–1949), known as Cel le Gaucher, illustrator and sculptor
  • Georges Babet (1890–1917), lieutenant killed on the Craonne plateau on 6 May 1917
  • Jean Duclos (1895–1957), deputy
  • Olivier-Hourcade (1892–1914), poet, killed at Oulches on 21 September 1914
  • André Labat, sportsman
  • Louis Lebrun (1769-1853), chef d'escadron, on 15 February 1791 became a private in the regiment
  • Hugues Alexandre Joseph Meunier, general and later lieutenant-colonel
  • Paul Soutiras (1893–1940), officer, killed in 1940.

Bibliography (in French)

References

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