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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.
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.
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 .
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.
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.
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
French The Comte de Rochefort is a secondary fictional character in Alexandre Dumas ' d'Artagnan Romances . He is described as approximately 40 to 45 years old in 1625 and "fair with a scar across his cheek".
1929: On 10 May the German embassy in France inquired what was the official coat of arms of France was. The French Ministry of Foreign Affairs replied that "there is no, in principle, official coat of arms or emblem," but that such a composition was used for the French embassies and consulates.