Pistolet Mle An XIII

Pistol Model An XIII from the Maubeuge Manufacture.
Breech tail marked M an 13, left side of the barrel marked B 1813, the B corresponding to the punch mark of Daniel Bouissavy, 1st controller of the Maubeuge Manufacture in office from 04/01/1808 until after the fall of the Empire. Right side engraved EF for French Empire and stamped with the S of the inspector Jean Baptiste Schouller, Director of the Manufacture from 03/28/1811 to 06/30/1814.
Lock engraved "Maubeuge Manufacture Impériale" bearing the punch mark DB in an oval of Bouissavy.
All the fittings are punched with the D under star of Philippe Delmotte controller from 1808 and the V surmounted by the crown of Versadet, including the ramrod.
On the counter-lock side we find the wood mark (the B in a shield) of the controller D Bouissavy. The receipt stamp is dated 3 (for March) 1813 and bears the letters B.Y of the first Controller Bouissavy, as well as the S, initial of Inspector Jean-Baptiste Schouller.
For the anecdote: Inspector Schouller, invested with the command of the place of Maubeuge, during the invasion of France by the allied troops in 1814, resisted three months with a meager garrison of 1000 unseasoned men and did not lay down his arms until well after the abdication of the Emperor on the express order of the King.