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) Archives militaires du Château de Vincennes. . . Le 34e Régiment d'Infanterie de Ligne 1789-1815 Aristide Martinien : Tableaux, par corps et par batailles, des officiers tués et blessés pendant les guerres de l'Empire (1805-1815) French Infantry Regiments and the Colonels who Led Them: 1791 to 1815 Historiques des corps de troupe de l'armée française (1569-1900) Abel Hugo : France militaire: 1792-1837, Histoire des armées françaises de terre et de mer de 1792 à 1837 Tome 5 Léon Galibert : Histoire de l'Algérie ancienne et moderne depuis les premiers establissements des Carthaginois jusques et y compris les dernières campagnes du général Bugeaud avec une introduction sur les divers systèmes de colonisation qui ont précède la conquête Française'' (1843) Jean-Baptiste Pébaÿ : Base Leonore des dossiers de la Légion d’honneur, dossiers nominatifs
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