abstract:When the National Constituent Assembly split on 3 September 1791, it decreed that king Louis XVI should have a Constitutional Guard, also known as the garde Brissac after its commander Louis Hercule Timolon de Cossé, duc de Brissac. This guard's formation was the only court reform to be put into effect, but it only lasted a few months, being superseded by the National Guard.
It is likely to be upheld in these decisions by the Russian Constitutional Court, operating under the chairmanship of another Old Guard apparatchik, Valery Zorkin.