Editing Republican Guard (France) (section)

=== Cavalry regiment ===
[[Image:BastilleDay FrenchRepublicanGuard (pixinn.net).jpg|thumb|Cavalry]]
[[Image:French Republican Guard Bastille Day 2007 n2.jpg|thumb|upright=0.8|Cavalry officer]]
[[Image:French Republican Guard Bastille Day 2007 n3.jpg|thumb|upright=0.8|Mounted band]]

Headquartered in the Quartier des Célestins, and Quartier Carnot barracks the cavalry regiment is made up of approximately 480 gendarmes and civilians of whom a little more than 10% are women. It has approximately 550 horses (11% mares) and remains the last mounted regiment in the French armed forces.

The regiment is composed of:
* Three squadrons<ref>A French ''escadron'' is equivalent to a US troop or a British squadron.</ref> of cavalry (the first is based at Quartier des Célestins, in Paris, and two others based at Quartier Carnot, also in Paris at the fringe of Bois de Vincennes),
* Reserve squadron 
* A squadron ''hors rang'' (based at Les Célestins) and composed of:
** [[French Republican Guard Band|mounted band]]
** horse-shoeing (farriers),
** veterinary service.
* The training centre (centre d'instruction) at Quartier Goupil [[Saint-Germain-en-Laye]]
* Hunting Horns Platoon (''Trompes de Chasse de la Garde'')

This unit has a section of high level sportsmen, in particular [[Hubert Perring]], dressage champion of France in 2005, and member of the French team for the World Equestrian Games of 2006.

The Guard Cavalry Regiment is twinned with the British [[Household Cavalry Mounted Regiment]], the Italian [[Carabinieri Cavalry Regiment]] and the Senegalese [[Red Guard of Senegal|Red Guard]].

==== Special displays of the cavalry regiment ====
[[Exhibition drill]] squads present five shows and reenactments:
*le carrousel des lances (the lancer's carrousel);
*la maison du Roy (the King's household cavalry);
*la reprise des tandems (the tandem riders);
*la reprise des douze (demonstration/lesson with 12 riders);
*l’équipe de démonstration de sécurité publique (modern mounted police demonstration)

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CARNOT 28 SEPTEMBRE 2013 363.jpg|The lancer's carrousel
CARNOT 28 SEPTEMBRE 2013 127.jpg|''La Maison du Roy'' reenactment
CARNOT 28 SEPTEMBRE 2013 122.jpg|The tandem riders
CARNOT 28 SEPTEMBRE 2013 081.jpg|Public security demonstration team
</gallery>