Louis-Étienne de Thouvenin (1791–1882) was a
French Army general. He invented the ''
carabine à tige
The carabine à tige (sometimes called a "stem rifle") was a type of black-powder, muzzle-loading rifle invented by Louis-Etienne de Thouvenin. The method was an improvement of the invention of another Frenchman, Henri-Gustave Delvigne. Delvig ...
'' ("stem rifle" or "pillar breech rifle"), based on a method by which muzzle-loading rifles could be easily and effectively loaded.
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19th-century French inventors
French generals
1791 births
1882 deaths
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