Although relatively simple in design, these flags were of taffeta changeant, which, as Pierre Charrié says in his book Drapeaux et Étendards Du Roi, is difficult to depict convincingly. I last tried to do so in my flags of French regiment Royal Artillerie in 2014 and feel again here that the result is fairly convincing. I am quite happy with it, anyway! The largely red sections were of "rouge et aurore changeant" and the largely green sections of "vert et aurore changeant".
Bassigny was first raised 27th September 1684 and given to Louis, Count of Mailly
One battalion strong in the 1740s
Service:
1688 Conquest of the Palatinate
1689 24th April Given to Jules-Auguste Potier, Marquis de Gesves
To 1693 Served on the Rhine; then to the Alps; battle of Marsaglia
1696 Back to the Rhine; served there to the peace
1701 Army of Italy; combat of Chiari
1702 Defence of Cremona
1702 3rd September given to Anne-Jacques, Chevalier de Bullion
1703 Expedition to the Tyrol
1704 Sieges of Verceil, Yvrée and Vérue
1705 15th March given to Jean-François, Marquis de Creil-Nancré
1705 Siege of Chivasso; battle of Cassano
1706 Battle of Calcinato; siege of Turin; battle of Castiglione
[1706 Battle of Ramillies; the Nafziger French and Allied OOB 706EAB.pdf specifically mentions "2nd Bassigny" and the regiment is mentioned at Ramillies in other modern accounts so it seems possible one battalion served there]
1707 Defence of Toulon
1708-1714 Army of Dauphiné
1715 Expedition to Majorca
1719 Army of the Pyrenees
1730 18th September given to Jean-Baptiste-François de Riotor, Marquis de Villemur
1733-1736 Army of Italy
1738 To Corsica
1741 Back to France
1740 21st February given to Emmanuel-Louis-Auguste, Chevalier de Pons-Saint-Maurice
1742 Army of Flanders
1743 Army of the Lower Rhine; battle of Dettingen
1744-1745 Defence of Alsace
1746 Sieges of Mons, Saint Ghislain and Namur; battle of Rocoux
1747 Battle of Laufeld; siege of Bergen op Zoom
1748 Siege of Maastricht
1749 1st February given to N de la Luzerne, Marquis de Briqueville
1749 10th February grenadiers incorporated in the Grenadiers de France and the rest in regiment Royal Comtois
The uniform in the late 17th and early 18th century was grey-white with blue facings, grey collar, red waistcoat, red stockings and yellow buttons.
Lemau de la Jaisse Abregé 1735 gives: coat, lining and breeches grey-white with blue facings, red waistcoat and stockings, flat, plain copper buttons and false gold trim on the tricorne.
The last Lemau de la Jaisse of the 1740s is less full in its uniform details but does still describe blue facings on the grey-white coat.
