I was browsing an old catalogue of a manufacturer in St Étienne, as you do, and thought people might like this:



Needless to say the pistol is in johns encyclopaedia, and is apparently a copy of the “Eureka”

And then there was this page of cycling supplies:



Cycling in France in the 1890s must have been even worse than in Chatham in the 1980s, if revolvers and knuckledusters were required equipment!!