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Jean Lepage

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French inventor, gunsmith (1746-1834)

FranceScientistsLived 1779 to 1822 · aged 43
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Jean Le Page (1746-1834) was a well-known French gunsmith. He worked for Louis XVI, Napoléon and then Louis XVIII. He was the inventor of fulminate percussion systems for firearms, which superseded the flint-lock mechanism and opened the way to modern firearms.

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Jean Le Page (1746-1834) was a well-known French gunsmith. He worked for Louis XVI, Napoléon and then Louis XVIII. He was the inventor of fulminate percussion systems for firearms, which superseded the flint-lock mechanism and opened the way to modern firearms. This followed the discovery of fulminates by Edward Charles Howard in 1800.

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France
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Scientists
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deceased
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Lived 1779 to 1822 · aged 43
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