[Get paid to fight people sounds pretty neat to him! Maybe less so patrolling... He nods once.]
I cannot claim to be an expert on French history, but of course I'm familiar with the musketeers of the guard. Your attire is a good indicator of the time period from which you hail, and, by extension, the king you serve. [And then there's the novel, too, but telling people they're fictional seems very rude.]