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I went on a vacation to France in last few weeks and obviously could not stop myself from spending full day wondering around French Army museum(did not get past Prussian war just too much awesome stuff to see)

People often think that armour just magically became useless as gunpowder handheld weapons appeared. Museum contains many examples showing otherwise. There are many suits of armour with multiple indents from musket balls. The highest I counted was 5, I don't know if these were inflicted in one engagement or in multiple battles. But whoever wore it definitely got his money worth. There is one helmet on display with a clean musket ball penetration through the visor

In general highly recommended place to visit, absurd amount of medieval (early, middle late) weapons(rapiers.. they have A LOT of rapiers, with every design imaginable), armour, arquebuses(revolver like muskets!), pistols, canons, whatever you want its there.
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