The three musketeers never use muskets

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• Kolanaki@pawb.social ⁨24⁩ ⁨minutes⁩ ago

  There’s also 4 of them.

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• thisbenzingring@lemmy.sdf.org ⁨2⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  And don’t you fucking forget D’Artagnan!

  There’s 4 of those fuckers regardless of what the elite Paris guard think!

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  • Mouselemming@sh.itjust.works ⁨27⁩ ⁨minutes⁩ ago

    Oui, d’accord, but he’s not officially a Musketeer until he’s proved himself with gallantry, daring, and disregard for the evil Richelieu and his minions.

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• pseudo@jlai.lu ⁨3⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  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 charge to protect the king. Later, it meant the firearm you could hold at the same place.

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• cheese_greater@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  Privateers didnt use their privates

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  • Mouselemming@sh.itjust.works ⁨26⁩ ⁨minutes⁩ ago

    But they privatized the loot

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• givesomefucks@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  It’s one of those things where we shortened a word 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”

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