3rd Cuirassier Regiment (France)

3e Régiment de Cuirassiers
Active1645 – 1815
1816 – 1919
1940
1952 – 1964
1968 – 1998
Country France
Branch French Army
TypeHeavy Cavalry/Armored Cavalry
EngagementsThirty Years' War
Franco-Dutch War
Nine Years' War
War of the Spanish Succession
French Revolutionary Wars
Napoleonic Wars
World War I
World War II Algerian War
DecorationsCroix de guerre 1914-1918 with a silver star

The 3rd Cuirassier Regiment (French: 3e Régiment de Cuirassiers, 3e RC) was a cavalry regiment of the French Army, later reequipped as an armored regiment.