Nicolas-Noël Boutet
Nicolas-Noël Boutet (31 August 1761 – 1833) was a French gunsmith and bladesmith who was director of the Versailles state arms factory. More than 600,000 weapons were produced under his directorship.[1][2]
Biography
[edit | edit source]Boutet was born in Paris, the son of the royal gunsmith Noël Boutet, and became his father's assistant. In 1788, he married Leonie-Emilie Desainte, the daughter of his father's colleague, which gave him an even better position at court and the title of "gunmaker-in-ordinary" to King Louis XVI.[3]
During the revolution he worked for Napoleon as director of the state arms manufactory.[4]
He died in Paris.[4]
See also
[edit | edit source]References
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Bibliography
[edit | edit source]- Nicolas-Noël Boutet Archived 2014-05-25 at the Wayback Machine on American Society of Arms Collectors
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