For convenience , re-enactors of the French North America
divide matchlocks in 3 types
Type I is the early match lock : Fish tail butt stock , pan welded on the barrel ,rectangular lock plate lock plate .
This type is used to re-enact the Champlain period
( early 1600)
Type II : the stock is common with the early Louis XIV flint
also called " fusil des galères " because the best known
military gun still in museum today was used by naval guard
on galley ( spl?) boats of the Mediterranée .
The lock plate is still rectangular . This one is used in
Frontenac period ans was used by the Carignan Salière.
Use of this gun by the french army was limited by royal edict
first no more than 20% flint 40% match...... 40 % pikes !
then 50% (pikes no more in use ) . Carignan rgt was the first
100% flint French army rgt.
Type III is a late , économy thing , Flint type stock , flint type
lockplate , pan welded to lock plate . Some were mentioned
in a 1707 inventory in Québec city , valued at 7 livres
when a regular flint musket was more than 20 livres ( french pound ) I know of no battles where they would have been used .
So replacement by flint in the french army was a very progressive action started around 1650 finished around 1700.
Interesting fact is that the french army went directly from match to french flint lock , no recorded use of snaplock,
dog lock , miquelet or other type of lock.
There are many records of wheellock by guards , cavalry
etc. Many records of Italian or spanish flint by officers and
noblemen , but none by the soldiers .