page_title: Republican Guard (France)
section_title: Band and Orchestra of the Republican Guard
hierarchical_section_title: Republican Guard (France) / Organization / Band and Orchestra of the Republican Guard
caption_attribution_description: English: Picture of the orchestre d'harmonie de la Garde Républicaine Français&#160;: Photo de l'orchestre d'harmonie de la Garde Républicaine
context_page_description: The Republican Guard is part of the National Gendarmerie. It is responsible for providing guards of honour for the state and security in the Paris area.
  Its missions include guarding important public buildings in Paris such as the Élysée Palace, the Hôtel Matignon, the Palais du Luxembourg, the Palais Bourbon, the Palais de Justice, as well as keeping public order in Paris. Honour and security services for the highest national personalities and important foreign guests, military ceremonies and guards of honour for fallen soldiers, support of other law enforcement forces with intervention teams and staffing horseback patrol stations, particularly for the forests of the Île-de-France region, also are part of its duties.
  The close physical protection of the President of the Republic is entrusted to the Security Group for the Presidency of the Republic a mixed police–gendarmerie unit which is not part of the Republican Guard. The guard, however provides counter-sniper teams and intervention platoons. The Republican Guard also represents France at international events at home or abroad.
context_section_description: Depending on needs, the orchestra performs in three configurations:
  the concert band (80 musicians)
  the string orchestra (40 musicians), likely to be presented in configurations of 24 or 12 bows, or in string quartets
  Symphony orchestra (80 musicians)
  It was founded in 1848 by Jean-Georges Paulus.
caption: Orchestra of the Republican Guard
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