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He rallied the French troops in the defense of Paris in 1636 and
won notable victories against the Spanish over the next several years increasing French power, but the war continued on after his death in 1643.
When this exquisite sporting gun was being crafted, Louis XIII had only just begun to build his remarkable arms collection.
He had been fascinated by firearms from a very young age
and began arms collecting as a young boy, receiving his first arquebus when he was three years old. He had seven firearms
by the time he became king shortly prior to his ninth birthday in 1610 and had fifty firearms in his Cabinet d’Armes by the time he came of age at 13 in 1614. After he secured power, the collection continued to expand dramatically throughout his remaining years and contained hundreds of arms by the time of his death.
‘Louis L’Arquebusier’ (King Louis XIII was Nicknamed "Louis the Gunmaker")
