Uniform of a French musketeer, 18th century. Light cavalry dragoon in bicorne, red coat and breeches, black waistcoat, boots, armed with sword. Disbanded in 1776. Le Mousquetaire. Handcoloured steel engraving by Cottard after an illustration by Theophile Fragonard, within a decorative cartouche by Bertrand, from Augustin Challamel's Autrefois ou Le Bon Vieux Temps, Types de 18e Siecle, Challamel et Cie, 1842.

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