Charleville Musket

Marin le Bourgeoys created the first true flintlock guns for King Louis XIII shortly after his accession in 1610. During the 17th century, flintlock muskets were produced in a wide range of models. In 1717, a flintlock musket for the French infantry was standardized. This was the first standard flintlock to be issued to all infantry troops, later known as "Charleville muskets", after the armory in Charleville-Mezieres, Ardennes, France.

The Charleville Musket is a .69 caliber French musket used in the 18th and 19th centuries. The 1717 was replaced eleven years later in 1728 with a model using three barrel bands to hold its 46 3/4 inch barrel in place. Changes in the 1740s included the standardized use of a steel ramrod in 1743 and, after 1746, newly manufactured muskets had the pan/frizzen bridle removed. Further refinements were made in the 1750s and 1760s. During the American War of Independence, the French Government supplied large quantities of muskets, with the most common the Charleville Model 1763, to the Continental Army.

Charleville Mle 1777 and its improved version Mle 1777 corrigé en l'an IX (Model 1777 corrected in the year IX (1800)) became the main infantry weapon of the French Revolutionary and Napoleonic Wars. The design of Charleville Mle 1777 was used for a number of models, produced in various European states, like Austrian M1798, Russian M1808, Prussian M1809, and Dutch M1815. In 1830s a large stock of Charleville muskets were converted from flintlocks to percussion locks and served until replacement with Minié system rifled muskets.

Charleville Musket

Original Mousquet Charleville Modèle 1763 - .69 caliber

Mousquet Charleville Modèle 1766 - .69 caliber

Mousquet Charleville Modèle 1777 - .69 caliber

Specifications

• Weight: 10 lbs.
• Length: 60 inches
• Caliber: .69 musket ball
• Action: flintlock
• Rate of fire: 2-3 round/min
• Effective range: 100 to 200 yards max 50 to 75 effective
• Feed system: muzzle-loaded

Note that nearly all firing Charleville Muskets in film or television are modern firing replicas due to original Charleville Muskets being unsafe to shoot and much more expensive.

The Charleville Musket and variants can be seen in the following films, television series, video games, and anime used by the following actors:

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Films

Title	Actor	Character	Notes	Date
The Student of Prague (Der Student von Prag)			Seen in Count's castle	1913
Gavroche	Nikolay Smorchkov (II)	Gavroche	With bayonet	1937
	Ivan Bobrov	Jean Prouvaire
	Dmitriy Popov	Touchet
	Nina Zorskaya	Madeleine
		Royalist soldiers, Republicans
Minin and Pozharsky		Polish Soldier		1939
Comanche Territory	Maureen O'Hara	Katie Howard		1950
	Will Geer	Dan'l Seeger
	Glenn Strange	Big Joe
		Stacey´s men
The Count of Monte Cristo		French soldiers		1954
Don César de Bazan	S. Tsomayev	Lazarille		1957
		Guards
Magnificent Sinner		Russian soldiers		1959
Captain Blood (Le Capitan)		French soldiers		1960
The Haunted Castle		Soldiers		1960
Cartouche	Jean-Paul Belmondo	Dominique		1962
	Jess Hahn	Gentle Giant
	Jean Rochefort	The Mole
		French soldiers
Mutiny on the Bounty	Richard Haydn	William Brown		1962
	Richard Harris	John Mills
		Rebels
The Leopard (Il gattopardo)	Terence Hill	Count Cavriaghi		1963
		Bourbon´s and Garibaldi's troops
Cain the XVIII-th (Kain XVIII)	Erast Garin	Cain XVIII		1963
		Soldiers
An Ordinary Miracle (Obyknovennoye chudo)		Soldiers		1964
Angélique	Giuliano Gemma	Calembredaine		1964
	Bernard Lajarrige	Sancé de Monteloup
		The castle defenders, bandits, gendarmes
Angelique: The Road to Versailles		Gendarmes, soldiers		1965
The Alamo		Texan soldiers		1965
Angelique and the King		King´s musketeers		1966
Untamable Angelique		French soldiers		1967
Mississippi Mermaid (La sirène du Mississipi)			A footage from 1938 film La Marseillaise	1969
The Married Couple of the Year Two (Les Mariés de l'an II)	Jean-Paul Belmondo	Nicolas Philibert		1971
	Patrick Dewaere	The volunteer
	Julien Guiomar	The major of Nantes
		Sans-culottes, Chouans and French soldiers
The Stolen Battle	Günter Junghans	Kreucher		1972
	Günter Rüger	Fleucher
	Lubomír Kostelka	Czerný
	Miloš Nesvadba	Nový
		Austrian and Prussian soldiers
The Count of Monte-Cristo		French soldiers		1975
Blue Bird	Jan Spitzer	Andrew		1979
Pirates		crew and pirates		1986
Boris Godunov		German mercenaries		1986
Gardens of Stone		U. S. Army 3rd Infantry "Old Guard"		1987
Chouans!	Raoul Billerey	Grospierre		1988
		French soldiers and royalist rebels
Air America		Laotian tribe		1990
The Last of the Mohicans		French soldiers		1992
Musketeers Twenty Years After	Valentin Smirnitskiy	Porthos		1992
Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles III		Walker's men		1993
Forrest Gump	Gary Sinise	Lt. Dan		1994
The Horseman on the Roof (Le hussard sur le toit)	Juliette Binoche	Pauline de Théus		1995
	Hervé Pierre	Brig. Maugin
		French soldiers
Almost Heroes		American soldiers		1998
Les Misérables		French troops		1998
Hornblower: The Even Chance		French soldiers		1998
Hornblower: The Examination for Lieutenant		Spanish soldiers		1998
Hornblower: The Duchess and the Devil	Christopher Fulford	Midshipman Hunter		1999
	Simon Sherlock	Oldroyd
		Spanish soldiers
Hornblower: The Frogs and the Lobsters	Sean Gilder	Styles		1999
		French Royalist and Republican soldiers
Sleepy Hollow		Continental Army soldiers		1999
The Captain's Daughter		soldiers and cossacks		2000
The Patriot	René Auberjonois	Reverend Oliver	Modèle 1766	2000
	Heath Ledger	Gabriel Martin
		Continental Army and French soldiers
Brotherhood of the Wolf	Samuel Le Bihan	Grégoire de Fronsac		2001
		French soldiers
Dark Portals: The Chronicles of Vidocq		A few characters		2001
Hornblower: Retribution		Spanish soldiers, rebel slaves		2001
Hornblower: Loyalty	Ioan Gruffudd	Commander Horatio Hornblower		2003
	Greg Wise	Major Côtard
	Sean Gilder	Styles
	Lorcan Cranitch	Wolfe
		French soldiers
Hornblower: Duty		French soldiers		2003
Fanfan la Tulipe	Vincent Perez	Fanfan la Tulipe		2003
		French and Prussian soldiers
Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World		French Naval Sailors of the Acheron	Modèle 1777	2003
Peter Pan		Pirates		2003
The Alamo		Alamo Defenders		2004
The Brothers Grimm	Julian Bleach	Letorc	Modèles 1763,1766 and 1777	2005
		French soldiers
Goya's Ghosts		French soldiers		2006
Snapphanar	Jörgen Persson	Räddstor		2006
	Per Lasson	Bonden
	Adam Lundgren	David Swartz
	Samuel Hellström	Joshua Swartz
		Danish and Swedish soldiers, peasants
18-14		Russian soldiers		2007
Pirates of the Caribbean: On Stranger Tides		British and Spanish soldiers		2011
Les Misérables	Eddie Redmayne	Marius Pontmercy		2012
	Aaron Tveit	Enjolras
	Hugh Jackman	Jean Valjean
		French troops
12 Years a Slave				2013
Far from Men		An Algerian rebel		2014
The Tiger: An Old Hunter's Tale	Choi Min-sik	Chun Man-Duk		2015
	Man-sik Jeong	Goo-gyeong
	Sang-ho Kim	Chil-goo
Pride and Prejudice and Zombies		Guards		2016
The Ritual				2017
Ghouls (Vurdalaki)	Aglaya Shilovskaya	Milena		2017
	Konstantin Milovanov	Georges
Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Men Tell No Tales		British soldiers		2017
Journey to China: The Mystery of Iron Mask		British and Russian soldiers		2019
The Woman King	Shaina West	Esi		2022
	Thuso Mbedu	Nawi
	Sheila Atim	Amenza
	Lashana Lynch	Izogie
	Adrienne Warren	Ode
		Dahomey & Portuguese army
Napoleon		French soldiers		2023

Television

Title	Actor	Character	Notes / Episode	Date
Treasure Island (Die Schatzinsel)	Georges Riquier	Dr. David Livesey	Ep. 03, 04; Flintlock and Percussion variants	1966
	Aldo Marini	Hunter
	Leroy Haynes	Abraham Gray
	Lucien Hubert	Redruth
	Jacques Dacqmine	Squire John Trelawne
	Jacques Monod	Captain Alexander Smollet
	Guy Saint-Jean	Joyce
	Michael Ande	Jim Hawkins
	Roger Lumont	Tom Morgan
	Jean Saudray	Ben Gunn
	Ivor Dean	Long John Silver
Grenadier Wordelmann	Peter Reusse	Johannes Wordelmann	Mle. 1777 Dragoon variant; standing in for the Potzdam musket	1980
	Bruno Carstens	A Prussian Grenadier
		Prussian soldiers
Amazing Stories		Defenders of Alamo	"Alamo Jobe" (S1E03)	1985-1987
The Inspector Alleyn Mysteries			Seen in weapon collection; "A Man Lay Dead" (S01E01)	1993
The Count of Monte Cristo		Soldiers		1998
Midsomer Murders		French Republicans in a historical film	"They Seek Him Here" (S10E7)	2008
Sisi		Austrian, French, and Sardinian soldiers	Denix reproduction	2009
Agatha Christie's Marple		French Republicans in a historical film	"The Mirror Crack'd from Side to Side" (S05E04)	2011
Sleepy Hollow	Tom Mison	Ichabod Crane		2013
Turn: Washington's Spies		Continental Army soldiers	S1E08	2014
The Man in the High Castle			"Pilot"	2015
Turn: Washington's Spies		Continental Army soldiers	S2E10	2015
Turn: Washington's Spies		Continental Army soldiers	S3E09	2016
Turn: Washington's Spies		Continental Army and French soldiers		2017
Les Misérables	David Oyelowo	Javert	Denix Replicas and Mle. 1777	2018
	Turlough Convery	Grantaire
	Joseph Quinn	Enjolras
	Archie Madekwe	Courfeyrac
	Dominic West	Jean Valjean
		British and French soldiers
The Great	Nicholas Hoult	Peter III of Russia	Mle 1777; "The Beard" (S01E02)	2020
		Russian soldiers	"The Beaver's Nose" (S01E10)
The Great		Russian soldiers	Mle 1777	2021

Video Game

Title	Appears as	Mods	Notes	Date
Assassin's Creed III: Liberation				2012
Tropico Series				2011
Call of Duty: Advanced Warfare			Mle 1777; not usable	2014
Assassin's Creed Rogue			Not usable	2014
Civilization VI				2016
Palworld				2024

Animation

Title	Characters	Notation	Date
Archer - Season 5	Lana		2014

Anime

Title	Character	Notes	Date
Lupin III: The Castle of Cagliostro		Napoleon soldiers	1979
Le Chevalier D'Eon	French soldiers	Both full-length and carbine muskets	2006
Najica Blitz Tactics	butler		2007
Sakura Taisen: New York, N.Y.			2007
Black Lagoon: Roberta's Blood Trail	Roberta		2010-11
Fena: Pirate Princess	Karin		2021

Model 1777 Cavalry Carbine

French 1777 Cavalry Flintlock Carbine - .69 caliber

French 1777 AN IX model Cavalry Flintlock Carbine - .69 caliber

The Model 1777 Cavalry Carbine (Mousqueton de Cavalerie) became the standard weapon for most French cavalry corps at the turn of the 18th and 19 century, particularly during the Napoleonic Wars. It was manufactured from 1777 until 1815 and went through several updates along the same lines as the Charleville musket, creating the An IX and An XIII variations (the most notable difference between the models being that the An IX model shortened the wooden stock making the weapon lighter and less bulky whilst keeping the same barrel length). This weapon has a couple of unusual features which distinguish it from most other cavalry carbines. Firstly, along with a sling bar mounted on the left side of the carbine, it was also fitted with a pair of normal sling loops for if it was used in the dismounted role or by infantry. Secondly, it is fitted with a bayonet lug on the bottom of the muzzle. Due to the overall short length of the carbine with the bayonet attached this was of questionable utility and was very seldom used, more commonly being used as a hand tool or discarded all together.

The Model 1777 Cavalry Carbine and variants can be seen in the following films, television series, video games, and anime used by the following actors:

Films

Title	Actor	Character	Notes	Date
The Count of Monte Cristo	Jean Marais	Edmond Dantès	Mle 1777 An IX, converted to percussion cap lock	1954
	Folco Lulli	Jacopo
The Married Couple of the Year Two (Les Mariés de l'an II)	Michel Auclair	The Prince		1971
		Chouans
Chouans!		French dragoons		1988
Les Misérables		A French Gendarmerie officer		1995
The Horseman on the Roof (Le hussard sur le toit)		French dragoons		1995
Brotherhood of the Wolf	Émilie Dequenne	Marianne de Morangias		2001
The Brothers Grimm		Villager		2005
Goya's Ghosts		French soldiers		2006
Night at the Museum: Battle of the Smithsonian		Napoleon's men		2009
OSS 117: From Africa with Love				2021

Television

Title	Actor	Character	Notes / Episode	Date
Jamaica Inn	Trevor Eve	Jem Merlyn	Mle 1777 Artillery carbine	1983
Sharpe's Challenge	Daragh O'Malley	Harper		2006
	Sean Bean	Richard Sharpe
		French soldiers
The Walking Dead: Daryl Dixon - Season 1	Paul Deby	Michel Codron	Mle. 1853T Musketoon; "L'ame Perdue" (S1E01)	2023
	Jeremie Denisse	Jèrèmie
	Francois Girard	François	"L'ame Perdue" (S1E01)
	Elias Hauter	Philippe Poulin	Mle. 1853T Musketoon w/bayonet; "L'ame Perdue" (S1E01)
The Walking Dead: Daryl Dixon - Season 2	Uncredited	Power of the Living movement Guerrier	Mle. 1853T Musketoon; "L'Invisible" (S2E03)	2024

Anime

Title	Character	Notes	Date
Le Chevalier D'Eon	French soldiers		2006
The Empire of Corpses	French soldiers		2015

Model 1786 Hussar Carbine

Model 1786 Hussar Carbine (modern Pedersoli "Ussaro Mod 1786" replica) - .69 caliber

The Model 1786 Hussar Carbine (Mousqueton de Hussard) was, as the name suggests, a carbine developed for the French Hussar regiments. The Hussars were true light cavalry who specialized in scouting and raiding, so an even lighter and shorter carbine was desired. The Model 1786 can be easily distinguished from the Model 1777 by its very short stock relative to the barrel, along with the apparently short ramrod (the ramrod actually extends all the was back into the buttstock of the carbine). Similarly to the Model 1777, it was also strangely fitted with a bayonet lug, although this was rarely (if ever) used by the Hussars despite the fact that the bayonet was always issued. Eventually, during the Napoleonic Wars, the Model 1786 gave way to standardization and was replaced by the standard An IX Cavalry Carbine.

The Model 1786 Hussar Carbine and variants can be seen in the following films, television series, video games, and anime used by the following actors:

Films

Title	Actor	Character	Notes	Date
Osceola	Gojko Mitic	Osceola		1971
	Gerhard Rachold	Joe Hammer
	Werner Kanitz	Phipps
		Raynes' men
Tecumseh	Gojko Mitic	Tecumseh		1972
Blue Bird	Gheorghe Patru	Raccoon		1979
	Robin Jaeger	Blue Bird

Model 1816 Cavalry Carbine

French 1816 Cavalry Flintlock Carbine - .69 caliber

The Model 1816 Cavalry Carbine (Mousqueton de Cavalerie) is the smallest carbine based on the Charleville musket. It is most recognizable by its lack of a ramrod leading to a slimmer stock and characteristic simpler barrel band (to which the front end of the sling bar running the full length of the side of the carbine attaches). The ramrod for this weapon was carried separately slung around the body, meaning that it could not be dropped whilst reloading on horseback, which was a significant issue for cavalry carbines of the time.

The Model 1816 Cavalry Carbine and variants can be seen in the following films, television series, video games, and anime used by the following actors:

Films

Title	Actor	Character	Notes	Date
Sharpe's Rifles		French cavalry		1993
Sharpe's Enemy		French soldier		1994
The Count of Monte Cristo		French soldiers		2002
Journey to China: The Mystery of Iron Mask	Anna Churina	Miss Dudley		2019

Television

Title	Actor	Character	Notes / Episode	Date
Always a Witch (Siempre Bruja)		Soldiers, Cristóbal's mercenary, slaver		2019