concept
Lepellier's Factory
Lepellier's gun
also: Фабрики Лепелье
An invented French gunmaker's name Otletaev produces to dazzle his companions and justify his gun's supposed six-hundred-rouble price; no such Marseilles factory is otherwise attested, part of the running joke about his boastful lying.
Reading notes
- The Twenty-Ninth of June (the tale of a hunter who never hits his mark) §21 Lepellier's factory
An invented French gunmaker's name Otletaev produces to dazzle his companions; no such Marseilles factory is otherwise attested, part of the story's running joke about his boastful lying.