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Hi Larry,
Again, my Francotte catalog says "aileron" while my French literature (manufacture de St-Etienne, Verney-Carron, Flobert, etc...) consistently shows "oreilles" for sideclips.
More Belgian/French discrepancies...
After all, even the numbers 70 and 90 are called differently in both countries.

A few other barrel related words:
bande=top rib
tire-cartouche=extractor
verrou=grip (as in Purdey grip)
guidon=front sight
devant=fore-end
longuesse=ditto

WC-

Due to the soft nature of "puree" i.e. literally "mashed potatoes", no sane person would use it for barrel verbiage, the only reasonable behavior upon reading it being to flee away as far away as humanly feasible from such a gun.
Doubtless, some letters are missing from the word, either at the stamping, or far more likely at the reading stage.
"Purete" is possible but far more common would be "surete"
respectfully,
WC-

Interesting on "oreilles". What I have from V-C doesn't include any term for sideclips. Nor Granger. Indeed, linguistic discrepancies.

And I'd stick with bolt for verrou, because while a gun savvy Brit might understand grip in that sense, an American is going to think straight, pistol, etc.

And don't forget . . . Inspector Clouseau works for the Surete.

It looks like a nice gun. If it fits and handles well, why not?

My only experinence with the French are the two sliding breech models I have. My first a nice little 28ga Darne fits me perfectly and will be then one I keep until, well. The other is a pre war Charlin 16ga. It's a little short but a slip on leather kick eze pad helps there.