"Musketeer" beard, mustache and hairdress - where did they originate?

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I've found that musketeers had large beards to store matches in, an that there is a strong link between small beards and civilization.

The books Fighting Techniques of the Napoleonic Age, and, A Most Precocious Thing: Gun Trading and Native Warfare In The Early Contact Period (yes thats the title), both say that the long beards were used to store the long burning matches to light their powder, in their beards. (the powder isn't in their beards) I'd say that that picture shows what aristocracy had. enter image description here

Champlain.

In another picture of Chaplains band, we see people with big bushy beards as well at the triangle

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On this website http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_French_monarchs We can see that, from the House of Louis VIII onwards, most kings had small beards, and the Angoulême Branch started having the beards in that picture you have.

The importance of this find is that It was Louis VIII who kicked the English out of France.

I also saw from wikipidia, that Henry I and Philip I, the two kings before Louis VI both had beards while Louis VI didn't, I found that Henry I and Philip I weren't in a time where France was strong nor did they add very much, but Louis VI put down the Robber Barons and actually helped France, to the point that he was able to be fat. Louis VI had no beard, Philip and Henry did. This means that the small beards happened in times when civilization and authority were strong.

Francis I, the next King to have a beard, didn't have a very strong rule and led to the protestant revolution.

Based off of this research, I'd say that your picture is wrong, or of a officer. The musketeers had beard cause they stored matches in them. French small beards are directly linked to the power and civilisedness of France. I don't know about the hair though.

Note that barbarian and barber and beard, though they look the same in French, most etemolegysts agree that these words's prefixes have nothing to do with each other. Barber's origin is a French sir name, and Barbarian's is Greek. However, theorists like Noamchomsky think that there are primitive roots to language hard-wired in our brain hence the similarity may reveal a underlining psychological parallelism of the two concepts, bararians and beards.

Here is a chart:

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