page_title: 2nd Dragoon Regiment (France)
section_title: Standard
hierarchical_section_title: 2nd Dragoon Regiment (France) / Symbols / Standard
caption_attribution_description: English: Drawing of the standard of the Régiment de Condé-Cavalerie from 1740–1776
context_page_description: The 2nd Dragoon Regiment is the only NBC Defense Unit of the French Army, stationed at Fontevraud-l'Abbaye, by Saumur in Maine-et-Loire. The current regiment is an amalgamation of the old 2nd Dragoon Regiment and the groupe de défense NBC, which took effect in July 2005. It incorporates the capabilities of the previous 2nd Dragoons, which was specialised as a reconnaissance unit, in a new mission as the sole French Army unit dedicated to combatting chemical, biological, radiological, and nuclear weapons.
  Despite the recent formation of the regiment in its current configuration, it is the oldest French cavalry regiment, dating back to 1556. The regiment found fame as the personal regiment of Louis, Duke of Enghien and later Prince of Condé, from 1635 to 1686; in honour of the "Grand Condé," it is still called the "Condé-Dragons". The French Revolution gave it the designation of the second regiment of dragoons in the French Army, and with brief interruptions it has served under this name in successive French armies ever since.
context_section_description: The regimental standard of the 2nd Dragoon Regiment is a French tricolor, with the following battle honours sewn on it in gold:
  Valmy 1792
  Zurich 1799
  Hohenlinden 1800
  Austerlitz 1805
  Iena 1806
  La Mortagne 1914
  Ypres 1914
  Flandres 1918
  Champagne 1918
  Autun 1944
  Forêt-Noire 1945
  AFN 1952–1962
  The French Army does not retain any battle honours from before the Revolution; the battle honour AFN 1952–1962 for the Algerian War was only retained after some controversy.
  Under the Ancien Régime, the Condé-Cavalerie had standards (guidons from 1776) that were blue, with the golden sun emblem of Louis XIV and the motto Nec pluribus impar, on one side; and fawn, with a silver sun lighting a pyre and the regimental motto Da materiam splendescam, on the other. The guidons were embroidered and fringed in silver.
caption: The two sides of the standard of the Condé-Cavalerie, 1740–1776
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