Nicolas-Noël Boutet
Nicolas-Noël Boutet (31 August 1761 – 1833) was a French gunsmith and bladesmith who was director of the Palace of Versailles, Versailles state arms factory. More than 600,000 weapons were produced under his directorship. Biography Boutet was born in Paris, the son of the royal gunsmith Noël Boutet, and became his father's assistant. In 1788, he married Leonie-Emilie Desainte, the daughter of his father's colleague, which gave him an even better position at court and the title of "gunmaker-in-ordinary" to Louis XVI of France, King Louis XVI of France. During the revolution he worked for Napoleon as director of the state arms manufactory.Nicolas-Noël Boutet
in The Grove Dictionary of Art He died in Paris.

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