About Nicolas Noël Boutet
Lived 1761 – 1833 (aged 71–72). Nicolas Noël Boutet was a French artist.
A case with a pair of flintlock pocket pistols with ebony grips and engraved steel barrels, c. 1805
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.
During the revolution he worked for Napoleon as director of the state arms manufactory.
He died in Paris.
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Gunsmith from France (1761–1833)
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Nicolas Noël Boutet was born on 18 April 1761.
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Nicolas Noël Boutet died in 1833.
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Nicolas Noël Boutet was an artist.
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Nicolas Noël Boutet was French.
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