Marriage Contract Between Jean Baptiste Claude Allevin, Gunmaker, and Barbe Françoise Bernard, Paris, July 13, 1759
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Although their works were highly regarded and influential across Europe, remarkably little is known today about the lives and careers of the leading gunmakers of seventeenth- and eighteenth-century France. This marriage agreement provides welcome biographical information on Jean-Baptiste Claude Allevin, a celebrated Parisian gunmaker, and his family. The document indicates that his father and a paternal uncle were both gunmakers, as was Pierre Descheaux, a family friend and witness to the contract. At the time, Allevin had not yet become gunmaker to the king and to Monsieur, the king's brother.
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