Lepage Michel
Here is a
nice four-barreled pistol, marked Michel LEPAGE. No hallmark visible on the
photos sent.
We often
see this type of pistol with one or two barrels side by side marked Segalas;
however, 4-barreled flintlock pistols of this type are very rare. The steel
stock is nicely engraved, the barrels are rifled. The frame bears the
inscription "Michel Lepage".
No Michel
LEPAGE in the two pages of Stockel devoted to the Lepage.
On the
other hand, Jarlier-Buigné mentions a Michel-Henri LEPAGE, arquebusier in Paris
or Liège in 1800-1805. Also called: arquebusier of Bonaparte First Consul. I
have not found where he worked, nor been able to include him in the family
history. Are they at the origin of the Liège family?
No Michel
LEPAGE either in "Five centuries of Liège armory" by Claude Gaier.
On the
other hand, we find Gilles Louis Michel Lepage-Moutier who was an arquebusier in
Paris under Louis-Philippe and Napoleon III. In 1842, he succeeded Henri LePage,
his father-in-law.
"After
confiscation at the fall of Louis-Philippe and restitution, Gilles Michel Louis
Moutier Lepage, known as Baron Moutier, great armorer of the king, acquired
nearly one hundred and 120 ha in 1850 and had the castle "des Bosquets" built in
the center of the plot in 1855."
HPH, GP et AD
