1852: Colonel Robinet des Plas 1855: Colonel Jean Jacques Paul Félix Ressayre 1863: Colonel Bourboulon 1869: Colonel Tillion 1870: Colonel Fombert de Villiers 1876: Colonel Maréchal 1881: Colonel Rapp 1887: Colonel Brossier de Buros 1893: Colonel of Lestapis 1898: Colonel of Sesmaisons 1899: Colonel Faure 1908: Colonel Trafford 1912: Colonel Champeaux 1914: Colonel of Champvallier 1918: Colonel Joannard 1925: Colonel Yvart 1931: Colonel Barbe 1933: Colonel of the Perrier de Larsan 1936: Colonel Jacottet 1951: Colonel of Soultrait 1953: Colonel Ameil 1956: Colonel Renoult 1958: Lieutenant-Colonel Bonnefous 1961: Lieutenant-Colonel Boileau 1963: Lieutenant-Colonel Jeannerod 1964: Lieutenant-Colonel le Diberder 1967: Colonel Fournier 1969: Lieutenant-Colonel O'Delant 1971: Lieutenant-Colonel Maillard 1972: Lieutenant-Colonel Carabin 1974: Colonel Delcourt 1976: Colonel of Cotton 1978: Colonel Thiébaut 1980: Colonel Burel 1982: Colonel Winckel 1984: Colonel Cailloux 1986: Colonel Lefebvre 1990: Colonel Françon 1991: Lieutenant-Colonel Riediner Regimental leaders killed or injured in combat July 23, 1675: Knight of Hocquincourt (Killed) August 4, 1692: Knight of Murçay (Killed) April 26, 1794: Chef de Brigade Vincent (Killed) February 6, 1807: Colonel Lebaron (Killed) July 22, 1812: Colonel Picquet (Wounded) Garrisons In March 1788, the Régiment de Dragons de la Reine moved to Laon in a newly built barracks, which, as new as it was, is assigned to it a merry-go-round, a quarry, and even a hospital. Dragoons are sworn to the nation and the King and Queen on August 1789. Becoming the 6e Régiment de Dragons early in 1792 and this time, after swearing loyalty to the nation, the law, administrators of the executive, to maintain the Constitution with all its strength, never to abandon its guiding principles, to observe the rules of discipline and to live free or to die, the regiment nevertheless left the city the following year for the campaigns of the French Revolution and the French Empire. Laon was later destroyed by bombing during World War I, only a pediment inscribed on historic monuments remains. From the end of the empire in 1815 until the Franco-Prussian War, the regiment was mobile throughout the metropolitan territory and changed garrison almost every two years. After the fall of the empire, the regiment was dissolved while garrisoned at Nîmes. It was reformed in 1816 in Haute-Saône under the name of Régiment de Dragons de la Loire. Before renaming back to the 6e Régiment de Dragons in 1825, the regiment was moved from Nancy, Charleville, Saint-Omer, Lille, and Verdun. It then