Ted...I agree on that gun....but I don't think the GreyBear posted gun is Frency's gun. But the name in front of the trigger guard on the Greybear gun is the retailer....
-- it was retailed by
Guinard Art (abbreviation - I'll figure it out) located in Compeigne, NE of Paris. He must have been a well known retailer..there are other guns on French sites sold by him:
https://www.auction.fr/_fr/lot/tres-beau...mpiegne-307235. There is a well known auto-parts maker in Compeigne named Guinard....it was taken over by the Germans and featured in the French WWII resistance. Retailers of guns in France were hardware stores that sold, scooters, bicycles, motorcycles, cars...etc. The company could have retailed the gun.
-- "Raymond" on the lower rib could be the gun maker.
When I see those armuriers who sold the guns, I always have to go looking at the local newspapers. It's such a trip back in time. The WWI Armistice was signed in a rail car in the forest of Compeigne.
I think this is the A. Guinard mentioned in the GreyBear link - It's a Parisian company but the Compeigne agency has to have a link.
From Compeigne during the war (WWI):
https://gallica.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/bpt6k5789763m/texteBrut
ANNÉE 1915 103
demandés en faveur des ouvriers boulangers, des techniciens de l'usine électrique, des pompes funèbres. On cherche surtout à améliorer les services publics privés, par suite de la mobilisation, de la plus grande partie de leur personnel.
L'usine Guinard, réquisitionnée pour la fabrication des mitrailleuses, est utilisée par le sixième parc d'artillerie. Partout où cela est possible, on crée des ateliers pour intensifier la fabrication des canons et des munitions.
La troisième division de cavalerie au repos à Compiègne depuis trois (mois, quitte la ville le 10 mai pour remonter vers le Nord. Le 11, le Président de la République, en tournée sur le front, fait un court séjour avant de se rendre dans le secteur de Ribécourt.
