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    Colonel Nicolas Lebel (18 August 1838 – 6 May 1891), after whom the French military's Lebel rifle was named. Nicolas Lebel was born in Saint-Mihiel (Meuse)...
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    Vieille. Lieutenant Colonel Nicolas Lebel contributed a flat nosed 8 mm full metal jacket bullet ("Balle M," or "Balle Lebel"). Twelve years later, in 1898...
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    The 8×50mmR Lebel (8mm Lebel) (designated as the 8 × 51 R Lebel by the C.I.P.) rifle cartridge was the first smokeless powder cartridge to be made and...
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  • Lebel (also Le Bel or LeBel) is a surname, and may refer to: Firmin Lebel (died 1573), French composer Jean-Jacques Lebel (born 1936), French painter...
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    mistakenly, called a "Lebel revolver" after the name of Colonel Nicolas Lebel, although there is no evidence whatsoever that Lebel had any involvement in...
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    designed by lieutenant colonel Nicolas Lebel achieving a muzzle velocity of 628 m/s (2,060 ft/s). The new 1898 pattern 8×50mmR Lebel cartridge loaded with Desaleux's...
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    Jean-Jacques Lebel (born 30 June 1936, Paris) is a French visual artist, poet, art collector, writer, political activist, and creator of performance art...
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  • Eugène Vieille in 1884. It was first used to load the Lebel Model 1886 rifle (invented by Nicolas Lebel), making it the first military firearm to use smokeless...
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    designed by the painter Michel-Gabriel Commelin and produced by Jean-Nicolas Lebel, was very fashionable, consisting of a wide frieze of cornflowers with...
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  • North America. Jean Pasquin, the father of Nicolas Pasquin, lived in La Poterie, France as early as 1612. Nicolas was born on April 5, 1648. He came to New...
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