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The France of the Musketeers Le Figaro History
Inseparable from the work of Alexandre Dumas, the king's musketeers were born, however, in a somewhat different context from the 17th century fantasized by the author of The
Three Musketeers.
The musketeers are one of the most famous military units of modern times, but also one of the most original due to the scope of the tasks assigned to them.
King's guards and parade corps, infantry and cavalry, shock troops and political police, they testify, through the variety of their functions, to a 17th century marked by wars and violence, whether civil or political.
They are sometimes themselves the repositories of this violence of which the absolute State under construction tends to arrogate the monopoly.
In the collective imagination, the musketeers have also been marked by famous captains, such as…
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