The Grand Master of Artillery or Grand Maître de l'artillerie was one of the Great Officers of the Crown of France during the Ancien Régime. The Great Officers of the Crown were the most important officers of state of the royal court in France during the Ancien Régime and Bourbon Restoration Ancien Régime ( pronounced: /ɑ̃sjɛ̃ ʁeʒim/ refers primarily to the aristocratic social and political system established in
The position of Grand Master of Artillery replaced the earlier position of Grand Maître des arbalétriers ("Grand Master of the Archers"). The Master of Crossbowmen (Maître des Arbalétriers or more precisely Master of Arbalesters or Master of Archers was the title of a commander It was made a Great Office of the Crown in 1601 by Henri IV for the benefit of Maximilien de Béthune, duc de Sully. Henry IV (Henri IV ( 13 December 1553 &ndash 14 May 1610) ruled as King of France from 1589 to 1610 and as Henry III Maximilien de Béthune Duke of Sully ( December 13, 1560 &ndash December 22, 1641) was the doughty soldier French minister staunch Huguenot
The Grand Master of Artillery had jurisdiction, at the beginning of the 17th century, over all the officers and the artillery of the French army, as well as oversight over sieges and encampments, the making of gunpowder and canons and management of the arsenals. Artillery (from French artillerie) is a military Combat Arm which employs any apparātus machine The French Army, officially the Armée de Terre (Land Army is the land-based component of the French Armed Forces and its largest Gunpowder is a an explosive mixture of Sulfur, Charcoal and Potassium nitrate (also known as saltpetre/saltpeter that burns rapidly producing volumes | NOTE Throughout this article "cannon" is used as BOTH the || singular and plural An arsenal is an establishment for the construction repair storage and issue of Weapons and Ammunition. At the end of the century, the position became merely honorific, and his duties passed to other more specialized officers, most notably the "surintendant des fortifications".
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- This article is based in part on the article Grand maître de l'artillerie de France from the French Wikipedia, retrieved on September 6, 2006. The French Wikipedia (Wikipédia francophone Wikipédia en français is the French language edition of Wikipedia, spelled Wikipédia.
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