forerunner of the Société française de constructions mécaniques, where he worked on weapon design and trade, selling guns to such countries as Serbia. A street is named after him (Rue du Colonel de Bange) in the city of Versailles. See also Cannons Shells Canet guns Gallery De Bange 155mm cannon (1877) De Bange 220mm mortar (1880) References External links Breech mechanisms Data for all the guns in the De Bange system French Army officers 19th-century French inventors Artillery of France École Polytechnique alumni 1833 births 1914 deaths