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Industrialist, Businessman
Born Nicolas-Noël Boutet
French arms manufacturer
Born on December 31, 1761 in Versailles , France
Died on October 12, 1833 in Paris , France
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... 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.
Biography
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 of France.
During the revolution he worked for Napoleon as director of the state arms manufactory.
He died in Paris.
See also
Flintlock
Napoleonic weaponry and warfare
W. W. Greener
References
Nicolas-Noël Boutet on American Society of Arms Collectors
Biography from Wikipedia (see original) under licence CC BY-SA 3.0
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