Errata for First Edition, First Printing of Chassepot to FAMAS: French Military Rifles, 1866 – 2016

P.76 - Tulle Gras Gendarmerie Carbine production revised to approximately 18,000 between 1874 and 1884.

P.145 - The Vetterli and Kropatschek were not formally tested at Châlons at this point, but instead studied.

P.148 - Lebel production at Tulle updated:

1914: 97

1915: Approx 70,000 (through SR 70,000)

1916: Approx 90,000 (SR 70,000 - TR 60,000)

1917/1918: Approx 60,000 (TR 60,000 - TS 20,000)

Total Tulle production approx. 820,000

P.160 - Magazine follower caption corrected to denote original and updated pattern; the updated follower was not part of the M93 modifications.

P.175/8 - Change in steel supplier codes changed from 1913 to 1905.

P.178 - MAT pre-1905 codes for Sté Anonyme des Aciéries et Forges de Firminy corrected to “V” or “F” (not “FY”).

P.199 - Additional Lebel bayonet supplier codes added:

Grips - BM: Ateliers Bariquand & Marre

Blades - CF: Sté Camion Frères

Blades - SC: Forges et Aciéries de la Marine à Saint-Chamond

Blades - SG: Société Générale de Coutellerie et d’Orfèvrerie

P.332 - Date that wood panels were adopted for the Berthier bayonet specified as November 1917.

P.239 - Added production of 4,000 Mle 1890 Cavalry carbines at MAC between 1893 and 1904 (total MAC production updated to 54,000)

P.253 - Corrected MAC carbine production data for 1916-1917:

1916: B 90,701–D 11,000 (C series ends ~23,000) (Total production ~43,300)

1917: D 11,001 - AB 43,500 (Total production 232,500)

P.275 - MAS 1907-15 production data corrected (the FL block was not used):

1918: FJ 88,001 - FK - FN 82,000 (Total production 194,000)

Total MAS 1907-15 production 1,482,000

P.279 - Removed reference to additional GG & Cie receivers being assembled by MAS. Also added that they have a mixture of 1907 and 1907-15 nose-caps.

P.314 - Added slight detail on Serbian contract - MAC produced 5,000 carbine barrels and MAS an unknown number of rifles and rifle barrels.

P.361 - “L” block of MAS 36 was not begun pre-war, although it used some pre-war barrels held in storage.

P.480 - Users of FAMAS G2 expanded to French Navy in general, not just marine commandos.

P.127 - Mle 1885 serial numbers in the same series as Mle 1874, not Mle 1884.

P.142 - Page header corrected from “Gras” to “Lebel”.

P.182 - Photo caption corrected to read “Mle 1886 M93”.

P.264 - Mle 1902 weight specification corrected to read “7.9 lb” instead of “7.9 kg”.

P.386 - Specifications header corrected to read “MAS 36 LG48”.

P.253 - MAS production for 1909-1911 removed - this was a duplication of data for 1912.

P.114 - Reference to the Werndl as a “capping breechloader” corrected.

P.186 - Description of the M27 Lebel rear sight operation was backwards. The M24 goes rearward and the M29 forward to increase the range.

P.206 - Corrected “Mle 1921 rifle” to read “Mle 1921 scope”.

P.230 - Corrected implication that the 1890 Gendarmerie carbine used a saber bayonet.

P.405 - Photo caption corrected - French troops in the Alps, not in Norway.

P.414 - Date of MAS liberation corrected to August 1944, not September.