Fauré Le Page
In addition to its production of holsters and gun bags, the company has since expanded its range to include organizers and handbags.
Pierre Le Page became the first firearms supplier of the Maréchal Maurice de Saxe, and then the House of Orléans.
Jean Le Page led the family business during the First French Empire, furthering the brand's reputation through innovation and craftsmanship.
The factory became renowned for its production of pistols, firearms, luxury melee weapons, and the iconic Le Page swords, rivaling the celebrated arms manufactured by Nicolas-Noël Boutet in Versailles.
In 1809, Le Page introduced "une Platine à percussion to the market thus encouraging the National Industry in front of which, he gave a highly successful demonstration by shooting three hundred times without missing once".
The Musée de la Chasse et de la Nature in Paris also has several Le Page pieces, including two of Emperor Napoleon I's shooting guns belonging to a series made in 1775 for King Louis XVI and modified around 1806; a silex gun that had belonged to King Louis XVIII[6] and a nécessaire box containing a pair of silex guns for children, a gift from King Charles X to the Duke of Bordeaux, future Count of Chambord.
It appears that the family played an active role in preparing for the Storming of the Bastille and in the Trois Glorieuses by distributing firearms to the people.
André Jean Thomas, the second child, became a arquebusier and settled down elsewhere at number 24 Rue de la Monnaie around 1823.
When this gun was introduced in 1838 to a French military commission, the government had six hundred of them manufactured in the royal factory of Saint-Étienne to be used by the Lancers Regiment.
Emile was Henri Le Page's nephew, and Louis Didier Fauré and d'Eléonore Méliade's son.
The store's location, near the Palais-Royal placed the arquebusier at the heart of the political events during the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, with the quantity of firearms kept in their warehouses being a target for the participants of the uprisings.
It appears though that the Le Page family accompanied the revolutionary movement and from the beginning placed itself on the side of the protesters in 1789 and 1830.
Many texts bear testimony to their patriotic commitment: "-M. Lepage, arquebusier, on Tuesday 27th July, deemed it his duty to oppose himself to the pillaging of the antique and precious firearms in his shops; he wanted to undertake himself, along with his employees, regular distribution of anything of use for the personal defense of his compatriots.
Le Page incessantly distributed firearms and munitions to everybody; on the morning of the 27th, he provided a hundred and twenty pounds of gunpowder.
Since Tuesday, there has been a continuous flow of people in his shop; firearms were distributed at all hours, his eighty-five-year-old father helped him throughout.
The gunsmith Le Page's sign, rue de Richelieu, read: Arquebusier of His Royal Highness Monseigneur the Duke of Orleans.
