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trying to research EM Reilly's former Armurier at 2 Rue Scribe (1868-86), I ran across this article on former gun shops in Paris which is pretty interesting - it also raises a question whether hunting and shooting in Europe in the 19th century really were upper-class sports for the most part: Paris, une ancienne capitale de l'armurerie http://chrisferon.free.fr/articles-divers/paris-ancienne-capitale-armurerie.phpHere are a couple of photos from the article:    
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Impressive list of International Manufacture Francaise distributors  BUT “The Manufacture Of Firearms At Liege”, Board of Trade Journal, Volume 10 1891 http://books.google.com/books?id=-X3NAAAAMAAJ&pg=PA556&dqLiege exported in 1889 firearms to the value of 724,440 l., being 233,944 l. in excess of the previous year; and the importance of the Liege gun trade, as compared with that of England and France, will be apparent from the following table of comparison of the arms proved in 1889 at Liege, Birmingham, and St. Etienne respectively:— Single barrel Liege- 338,024; Birmingham- 28,146; St. Etienne- 4,352 Double barrel Liege- 233,526; Birmingham- 284,247; St. Etienne- 32,204 Total Liege- 1,124,431; Birmingham- 529,048; St. Etienne- 40,740
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Hunting was and still is a more popular pursuit in France because the right to hunt is not legally tied to the landowner as in Britain. There are public areas open to hunting, areas managed by hunting associations for their members (membership is open to all residents in the area of the association) and very few private reserves. Such concepts are unknown in Britain.
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When I was in Paris (had a client there and used to got here every month) I would always visit Gastinne Renette on rue de Franklin Roosevelt. They had a gun shop downstairs and, upstairs, behind double oak doors, they had a gunroom with many top quality guns - French. English, and some Spanish. There was an excellent restaurant next door open for lunch.
I think Gastinne Renette is now closed and the restaurant has moved. So it goes.
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Hunting was and still is a more popular pursuit in France because the right to hunt is not legally tied to the landowner as in Britain. There are public areas open to hunting, areas managed by hunting associations for their members (membership is open to all residents in the area of the association) and very few private reserves. Such concepts are unknown in Britain. And these associations often issue pins for their regions: 
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Here is info on Gastinne-Renette from the article. Closed in 2002 which was like "a clap of thunder" (it had been there so long).  
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Those Frenchmen...what do they know about making guns! 
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Argo, the first chap in that photo looks like he has a dueling pistol in his hand. Suppose he had an "appointment" later that day??? Pretty sure the practice was outlawed in the 20th century.
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Speaking of French guns, there is a nice Darne mini punt gun on Forgottenweapons.com
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