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Fox,
I haven't posted a picture of the brazed area. It is at the very bottom of the rising bite and driven up by a cam in the action.
What I thought was most notable was the sheared half moon in the fomerly straight across rising bite, and the broken plate in the locking mechanism.
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As usual Ted interesting stuff. Never really looked at French built guns until reading your threads.
Now, will anyone start a thread about the Georges Granger???
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I had a night on the town, in St, Etienne, with Richard Levi, the owner. The guns are superb, got to handle a few in the shop, and saw his inventory of actions-about five, as I recall. His unique, removable sidelock system was a marvel, no nail on the side to remove it, you simply pressed forward on the trigger and the entire sidelock mechanism popped up out of the wood for cleaning or inspection.
Richard wasn't interested in exporting to the states, he had all the work he could do, right in Europe. He was working on the design for a 28 gauge boxlock when I was there.
I think I've seen one ad for a Granger for sale over the years.
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I think the man to contact about Granger is JJ Perodeau at Champlin Arms. They used to represent Granger in this country. Not sure whether that is still the case.
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A highly sought after family heirloom with a very affluent and faithful following or a typical French double that is used hard, thrown in the back of the old Peugeot and cleaned when needed? 
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If you gotta' ask...
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Oh, that level. I got it.
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It'd make a nice tomato stake....
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Ted: In the FWIW column, I saw one of these toggle action Darnes (Bruchet?) guns on an episode of Midsomer Murders on Netflix last night. It made two appearances, first in the ambush murder of the Lord of the Estate's wife during a driven shoot, and then later as the instrument used by the guilty parties to execute a murder/suicide pact. It struck me as telling that this British program didn't use an "English" gun to perform these foul deeds. The gun was very clearly shown, with the action being operated to load it, just so there was no confusion with anything produced in Merry Old England. See a Darne used as a murder weapon in "Coup de torchon" a terrific French movie.
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