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There’s also 4 of them.
The french word “mousquet” means first a place of the belt where you hold stuff. Hence the name of the sword that you hold there, and the military unit that would were them even within the capital city as they were charged to protect the king. Later, it meant the firearm you could hold at the same place.
Source: the wiktionnaire I looked once I had about the same thought.
You got a link to your source on that?
Merriam-webster says mousquet came from the Old Italian moschetto meaning a small artillery piece. It’s also a term for a male sparrow hawk. Which there was a traditio of naming weapons after animals.
https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/musket
The Wikipedia page for musketeer says this:
The Musketeers of the Guard were a junior unit, initially of roughly company strength, of the military branch of the Royal Household. They were created in 1622 when Louis XIII furnished a company of light cavalry (the “carabiniers”, created by Louis’ father Henry IV) with muskets.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Musketeer
So the term Musketeer comes from the fact that they are armed with muskets. I cant find anything about a mousquet being a place on the belt to hold stuff.
Since when could you hold a musket on your belt?
They typically had barrels over three feet long, with a total weapon length over four feet.
It’s one of those things where we shortened a phrase and then it stopped making logical sense.
“The three musketeers” werent just musketeers who carried muskets.
They were “the king’s musketeers”. They were elite special forces as well as the personal bodyguard for the King. The best of the best. The “musketeer” part was the common bit, it just sounds fancy centuries later.
But the book might as well be called “The Kingsguard”
And don’t you fucking forget D’Artagnan!
There’s 4 of those fuckers regardless of what the elite Paris guard think!
Oui, d’accord,
butalthough he’s not officially a Musketeer until he’s proved himself with gallantry, daring, and disregard for the evil Richelieu and his minions.
i was curious about this also. seems like in the book they did have muskets, but they were rarely used as most of the book involved ‘close’ fighting in which swords were used while muskets were battlefield, long-range devices.
Indeed. You get one shot with a musket. You wouldn’t have time to reload before the enemy would be on top of you and you had better have that sword out.
Privateers didnt use their privates
But they privatized the loot
How do you know?
Fr, I’m positive “legalized pirates” used their privates. That’s crazy.
