Nicolas Noël Boutet

Place: Paris

Born: 1761

Death: 1833

Biography:

Nicolas-Noël Boutet 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. He 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.