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  2. Musketeers of the Guard - Wikipedia

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    The Musketeers of the military household of the King of France (Mousquetaires de la maison militaire du roi de France), also known as the Musketeers of the Guard (French: Mousquetaires de la garde) or King's Musketeers (Mousquetaires du roi), were an elite fighting company of the military branch of the Maison du Roi, the royal household of the French monarchy.

  3. Charles de Batz de Castelmore d'Artagnan - Wikipedia

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    Charles de Batz de Castelmore (French pronunciation: [ʃaʁl də bats də kastɛlmɔʁ]), also known as d'Artagnan and later Count d'Artagnan (c. 1611 – 25 June 1673), was a French Musketeer who served Louis XIV as captain of the Musketeers of the Guard.

  4. Musketeer - Wikipedia

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    Ming gunman using multi barreled repeating firearm. A musketeer (French: mousquetaire [muskətɛʁ] ⓘ) was a type of soldier equipped with a musket.Musketeers were an important part of early modern warfare, particularly in Europe, as they normally comprised the majority of their infantry.

  5. Comte de Troisville - Wikipedia

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    Jean-Armand du Peyrer, Comte de Troisville (or Tresville) (1598 – 8 May 1672) was a French officer. He was fictionalized under the name Monsieur de Tréville in Alexandre Dumas 's 1844 novel The Three Musketeers .

  6. Maison militaire du roi de France - Wikipedia

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    The first was retained because of its close ties to the Royal Court, the French and Swiss Guards because they comprised the largest, and historically most effective, infantry components of the Maison du Roi. At the French Revolution's outbreak in July 1789, the French Guards defected from the monarchy and joined in the attack on the Bastille.

  7. Alexandre Dumas - Wikipedia

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    Chirac acknowledged the racism that had existed in France and said that the re-interment in the Pantheon had been a way of correcting that wrong, as Alexandre Dumas was enshrined alongside fellow great authors Victor Hugo and Émile Zola. [31] [32] Chirac noted that although France has produced many great writers, none has been so widely read ...

  8. Cadets de Gascogne - Wikipedia

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    Nowadays, the word cadet is used in French as an equivalent of younger son. The regiment was apparently considered romantic and swashbuckling, so it appealed to authors; it was used in both Cyrano de Bergerac and the original Three Musketeers by Dumas. Famous members of the regiment included: Savinien Cyrano de Bergerac; Antonin Nompar de Caumont

  9. Henri d'Aramitz - Wikipedia

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    Henri, Seigneur d'Aramitz ("Lord of Aramits"; c. 1620–1655 or 1674) was a Gascon abbé, and black musketeer [1] of the Maison du Roi in 17th century France.In addition, he was the nephew of the Comte de Troisville, captain of the Musketeers of the Guard. [2]