In 1676, Louis XIV had some of his

bodyguards equipped with rifled carbines,

first four, then fifteen and soon seventeen

men per brigade, and these troopers quite

naturally took the name of "carabiniers".

This is the way their adventure begins which will

come to an end with the disaster of the Franco-Prussian

War in 1870.

Two centuries of history in the service of the King

the Republic and the Empire for these troopers,

supreme symbols of the elite of the French

cavalry, that they are put on by the three-cornered

hat, the bearskin or the helmet...