regiment wore red coats with blue lapels with white buttonholes, blue cuffs, lining, waistcoats, breeches, and hose (white from 1739), and white buttons. The drummers wore the colonel-proprietors' livery, not the king's, and the drums were decorated with the colonel's coat of arms. References See also List of Royal French foreign regiments Military units and formations established in 1719 Military units and formations disestablished in 1763 Infantry regiments of the Ancien Régime Swiss regiments in French service