Captain D'Agoust was an officer of the group of Swiss soldiers what have served as guards at European courts since when?
Captain D'Agoust Captain D'Agoust was an officer of the Swiss Guards, described by Thomas Carlyle in his classic recounting of the French Revolution, as a "cast-iron" individual. On 4 May 1788, fourteen months before the Revolution, the captain, acting on the order of the Court of Versailles, marched the Parliament of Paris out of the Palais de Justice and removed the key from the premises. The event is considered one of the key mileposts on the road to the Revolution.
Seimeni Seimeni (plural of "Seimen") designates the group of flintlock-armed infantry mercenaries charged with guarding the "hospodar" (ruler) and his court in 17th and 18th century Wallachia and Moldavia. They were mostly of Serb and other Balkan origin. The term is of Turkish origin: "seğmen" means "young armed man". In modern transcriptions of Slavonic, it may also appear as "simén" (plural: "siméni") or "siimén" ("siiméni").