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Good morning, James -
 
I had expected you'd be the first to respond with the facts (thank  you).
 
True, that they were four (in the story).
 
Hmm...two centuries. Is this attributable to the Chinese? The origin of  
outsourcing as we know it today? <g>
 
Sandy
Mid-Mojave
 
 
In a message dated 9/21/2008 5:26:33 A.M. Pacific Standard Time,  
Clansgian AT wmconnect.com writes:


>  >What's the time frame? Were 'muskets' even invented yet when the story 
was  
>  
> set?

Just as the English palace guards are  called Grendadiers although they don't 
primarily use grenades, and some  modern mechanized brigades are called 
'lancers' although they don't use  lances,   like that in 1622 a specialized 
corps was 
formed as  the kings bodyguard and called 'Les Mousquetaires du Roi'.  They 
were  originally armed with muskets, but the 17th century flintlocks were 8' 
long  
and weighed 20 lbs.  When the corps was later mounted, the firearms  were 
dropped but not the name.

Dumas' story begins in 1625.   Firearms had been in use for more than two 
centuries by then.

More  of a puzzle perhaps than the fact you had swordsmen called musketeers 
is  
that the title of the tome says it is about "three" musketeers when  actually 
there were four.    
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