Antoine Alphonse Chassepot

Antoine Alphonse Chassepot
Antoine Alphonse Chassepot
Born	Antoine Alphonse Chassepot March 4, 1833 Mutzig, France
Died	February 5, 1905 (aged 71) Alsace
Occupation	inventor

A Chassepot.

Antoine Alphonse Chassepot (1833–1905) was a French inventor and gunsmith. He was born in 1833 at Mutzig in Alsace. He invented the breech-loading, center-fire needle gun rifle known as the Chassepot. It was adopted by the French army in 1866 for which he received the Cross of the Légion d'honneur and a gratuity of 30,000 francs.^[1]

References

1. John Walter (2006). Rifles of the World (3 ed.). Iola: Krause Publications. p. 86. ISBN 978-0-89689-241-5.