Commune de Paris French regulation rifle... - Lot 143 - Euvrard & Fabre

Commune de Paris French regulation rifle model 1822 T bis attributed to the National Guard (surely sedentary considering the repair stamp of the Paris workshops located in the Louvre), having fought the Versailles troops during the Commune de Paris, well engraved lock: Mre Rle de St. Louis.Etienne (Manufacture Royale de Saint-Etienne) and stamped P and L barrel dated 1837 (new percussion) and MI (Manufacture Impériale) on the right side. Engraved C of 18 (calibre 18mm) and numbered 1242, as well as various controller punches on the left side of the barrel. Barrel transformed bis in 1860, breech tail n° 222 U (markings under the barrel) Engraved breech tail: Ml 1822 T bis Numbered 426 and punch of manufacture on the stick, as well as 222 U inside. Stamp of stick of the workshops of repair of the Louvre in Paris as well as Tulle and Chatellerault for the modifications of the ignition of the lock and the setting in rifling of the barrel. Original strap in white buffalo stamped H. Stick and iron trim all stamped from manufactures. With its bayonet in the model (stamped B) and its sheath (bad condition, missing.) Hand engraving under the subguard "VIVE LA COMMUNE". Very rare historical document having taken part in the siege of Paris as well as in the Paris Commune between 1870 and 1871. This rifle most probably belonged to a National Guard during this period (after the fall of Sedan and Emperor Napoleon III, more than 300,000 soldiers surrendered with their armaments, the new provisional government of national defence, under the aegis of Gambetta, called for a mass raising of troops and recalled all the weapons available to arm soldiers and civilians (National Guard), including these 1822 T bis percussion rifles.) In the department of the Seine (Paris / suburbs) patriotic feeling being very strong, the majority of Parisians join the National Guard battalions to defend the capital. The siege of Paris be