Most were produced either at the state arsenal in St. It was first issued in 1858 by the French Navy (as either the Lefaucheux de Marine mle 1858 or simply M1858), and though never issued by the French Army, it was used in limited numbers by the French Cavalry during their 1862 deployment to Mexico. The 1854 model was the first metallic-cartridge revolver adopted by a national government the 1858 was the first variant fielded. Ī 7mm Lefaucheux revolver used by Paul Verlaine to shoot and wound Arthur Rimbaud in 1873 sold with a price of €435,000 at a 2016 Paris auction.Original Item: Only One Available. The Lefaucheux M1858 was a French military revolver developed for the navy, chambered for the 12 mm pinfire cartridge, and based on a design by Casimir Lefaucheux and his son, Eugene (also a gun designer). The pistol was found, extremely corroded, in 1965 and is on display at the Van Gogh Museum in Amsterdam. It is thought likely that the gun with which the Dutch painter Vincent van Gogh fatally shot himself in a field in 1890 was a 7mm Lefaucheux pinfire revolver. In 1858, the Lefaucheux pistolet-revolver became the first metallic-cartridge revolver to be adopted by a national government, becoming the standard sidearm of the French Navy. In 1846, the Lefaucheux system was improved upon by Benjamin Houllier, who introduced an entirely metallic cartridge of copper brass. Lefaucheux thus proposed one of the first practical breech-loading weapons. The Lefaucheux cartridge had a conical bullet, a cardboard powder tube, and a copper base that incorporated a primer pellet. This followed the pioneering work of Jean Samuel Pauly in 1808-1812. Lefaucheux is credited with the invention of one of the first efficient self-contained cartridge systems in 1836, featuring a pinfire mechanism.
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In 1832, he completed a drop-barrel sporting gun with paper-cased cartridges. He was born in Bonnétable and died in Paris.Ĭasimir Lefaucheux obtained his first patent in 1827. Casimir Lefaucheux ( French: 26 January 1802 – 9 August 1852) was a French gunsmith.
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