Le Redoutable: A Double Barrel 20 Shot Revolver

Cool Forgotten Weapons merch Manufrance was the common abbreviated name for Manufacture d Armes et Cycles de Saint Etienne, a massive mailorder catalog company in France for many decades. Like Sears Roebuck in the United States, one could get pretty much anything from the Manufrance, including firearms. In the years leading up to World War One, the catalog included more and more extravagant revolvers, culminating in the 20shot, 6. 35mm Le Redoubtable (introduced in either 1910 or 1911) and the similarlysized 16shot Le Terrible in 7. 65mm. Both used a cylinder with two staggered rows of chambers and two superposed barrels to fit that many cartridges into a sort of practical cylinder. After 1914, the Manufrance catalog ceased publication for the duration of World War One, and the Redoubtable was no available when it returned in