France, Reign of Louis XVIII, First Restoration (1814-1815). Beautiful old reconstruction of a helmet of the 2nd Company of the King's Musketeers called "Black Musketeers" of the King's Military House, model 1814. Rounded shape, visor and helmet cover in silver plated copper. The crest in silver plated copper is decorated with dragon wing-shaped boxes with corollas of foliage from which lightning bolts escape, the caterpillar brush and the mane, are here of style reported and later. The visor and the neck cover are edged with a silver plated copper ring, the interiors lined with green basanes for the visor and brown for the neck cover (here, the basanes are of later style, and there are two brass upholsterer's nails fixed on the ring on each side of the visor (?)). Silver plated metal band with the motto of the black musketeers "Alterius Jovis Altera Tela" on the front, and decorated on the back with corollas of flowers. Front plate in silvered and gilded stamped copper (18.5 x 18.5 cm) representing the cross of the musketeers on a blackened sandy background (blackened remains) with fleurs-de-lis at the four points and flames in the corners (originally, the perimeter of the cross and the fleurs-de-lis were gilded, here there remain some remains of gilding). Chinstraps in leather covered with black velvet, covered with nineteen silvered copper scales and rosettes in silvered copper and cut into wings and stamped, each, with ten lightning and flanked by a head of Minerva stapled in their center (left chinstrap damaged, missing 16 scales on 18). They are finished with two laces and tassels with bangs in gilded and silvered trimmings, reported and posterior. Inner leather and black satinette headpiece reconstituted and later. Complete. H. without the chenille: 33 cm. (helmet reconstituted with old materials on the models of the time, traces of old glue on some elements, some small dents on the bomb, beautiful presentation, fairly good condition). We join a button of uniform of musketeer in copper and tinplate of manufacture end XIXe, beginning XXe. It is presented attached to the passementerie cords of the chinstraps. Note: The King's Musketeers is one of the corps that compose the Military House of the King of France. They were created in 1622 by Louis XIII to ensure his protection, then dissolved in 1646 by Mazarin before being recreated by Louis XIV then again dissolved by Louis XVI in 1775 and reformed in 1789 then dissolved in 1792, then finally reformed by Louis XVIII in 1814 then dissolved again in 1816. In 1664, the King's Musketeers were composed of two companies; they were nicknamed "Grey Musketeers" for the 1st Company, due to the coat of their grey dappled horses, while the 2nd Company, created in 1663, was nicknamed "Black Musketeers", the horses of the latter having a black coat. During the 1st Restoration (1814), the two companies of the Guard Musketeers were reformed on June 7, 1814. They each included 32 officers, 24 ranks, 200 musketeers and 200 supernumerary musketeers (without pay). They were dissolved on January 1, 1816.