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Berthier Rifles
The Berthier Rifles and Carbines were a family of bolt-action small arms in 8 x 50R mm Lebel, used in the French Army from the 1890's to the beginning of World War II and by some French law enforcement units until the 1970's. Developed from the cavalry and artillery carbines issued in 1890-92, known as the "mousquetons Berthier", two full length Berthier rifle models had already been introduced before World War I. They were the fusil Mle 1902 and fusil Mle 1907 which were issued to Indochinese and Senegalese Tirailleur troops. During World War I, a modified version of the Mle 1907 rifle called Fusil Mle 1907-15 was manufactured in very large numbers for issue to French Colonial troops, French Foreign Legion and Allied troops during the war. It also was issued to regular French troops due to the shortage of Lebel Model 1886 rifle during World War I. The Fusil Mle 1907-15 was manufactured in at four locations the French arsenals Manufacture d'armes de Saint-Étienne and Chatellerault. Also by private companies Delaunay-Belleville, Continsouza and Remington UMC. Due to the small 3 rd magazine capacity of the Berthier Mle 1907-15 to be a major disadvantage, that led to the introduction of a 5-round magazine Berthier Fusil Mle 1907-15 M16. It was manufactured beginning in 1890 until 1918. The total number of Berthier rifles manufactured was 435,000 units. In 1930s about 80,000 of them were converted for using a new 7.5 mm cartridge; this version is known as Mle 1907-15 M34.
Specifications
Type: Rifle
Caliber: 8x50R mm; 7.5x54 mm (Mle 1907-15 M34)
Capacity: 3,5 rounds
Fire Modes: Single shot (Bolt Action)
Modèle 1892 Artillery Carbine
The Berthier Model 1892 Artillery Carbine appears in the following movies:
Film
| Title | Actor | Character | Note | Date |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Bennie the Howl (Benya Krik) | Benya Krik's man | 1926 | ||
| Daybreak (Le jour se lève) | French soldiers | 1935 | ||
| The Eighth (Osmiyat) | A resistance fighter | 1969 | ||
| Baba Yaga, Devil Witch | Isabelle De Funès | Valentina Rosselli | 1973 | |
| Firing squad | ||||
| Hot Fuzz | Seen in the evidence room | 2007 | ||
| Far from Men | Reda Kateb | Mohamed | 2014 | |
| Algerian rebels | ||||
| 15 Minutes of War (L'Intervention) | Somalian troops | 2015 | ||
| To the Ends of the World (Les confins du monde) | Vietnamese soldiers of French colonial troops | 2018 | ||
| An Officer and a Spy (J'Accuse) | French gendarmes | 2019 |
Television
| Title | Actor | Character | Note | Date |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Front Without Mercy (Front ohne Gnade) | Spanish Republicans | Ep.6 | 1984 |
Video Game
| Game Title | Appears as | Note | Release Date |
|---|---|---|---|
| Battle of Empires: 1914-1918 | "Mousqueton Modèle 1892" | 2015 | |
| Verdun | "Mousqueton Mle. 1892 Berthier" | 2015 | |
| Rainbow Six Siege | Unusable; seen on background | 2015 | |
| Hunt: Showdown | Berthier Mle 1892 | Added in Update 1.7 (2021) | 2018 |
Fusil Modèle 1902 Rifle
The Berthier Model 1902 Rifle appears in the following movies:
Film
| Title | Actor | Character | Note | Date |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Shock Troop | French soldiers | 1934 | ||
| The Intervention (Interventsiya) | French soldiers | 1969 | ||
| The Gang (Le Gang) | French gendarmes | 1977 | ||
| Capitaine Conan | French soldiers | 1996 |
Fusil Modèle 1907 Rifle
Film
| Title | Actor | Character | Note | Date |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| The Fear | French soldiers | 2015 |
Video Game
| Game Title | Appears as | Note | Release Date |
|---|---|---|---|
| Verdun | "Fusil Colonial Mle. 1907 Berthier Sénégalais" | added with December 2018 expansion | 2015 |
Fusil Modèle 1907-15 Rifle
The Berthier Model 1907-15 Rifle appears in the following movies and TV series:
Film
| Title | Actor | Character | Note | Date |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 7th Heaven | Charles Farrell | Chico | 1927 | |
| David Butler | Gobin | |||
| French soldiers | ||||
| Wings | French troops | 1927 | ||
| Carry on, Sergeant! | French-Moroccan soldiers | 1928 | ||
| All Quiet on the Western Front | Raymond Griffith | Gérard Duval | 1930 | |
| Lew Ayres | Paul Bäumer | |||
| Slim Summerville | Tjaden | |||
| French soldiers | ||||
| Morocco | Gary Cooper | Tom Brown | 1930 | |
| Paul Porcasi | Lo Tinto | |||
| French Légionnaires | ||||
| Mata Hari | French soldiers | 1931 | ||
| Cavalcade | French soldiers | 1933 | ||
| The World Moves On | Franchot Tone | Richard Girard | 1934 | |
| Raul Roulien | Henri Girard | |||
| Stepin Fetchit | Dixie | |||
| French soldiers | ||||
| The Road to Glory | Victor Kilian | Tall Sergeant | 1936 | |
| Lionel Barrymore | Pvt. Morin | |||
| French soldiers | ||||
| Seventh Heaven | James Stewart | Chico | 1937 | |
| Victor Kilian | Gobin | |||
| French soldiers | ||||
| Beau Geste | Gary Cooper | Beau Geste | 1939 | |
| Ray Milland | John Geste | |||
| Robert Preston | Digby Geste | |||
| Albert Dekker | Schwarz | |||
| Harold Huber | Voisin | |||
| Legionnaires | ||||
| The Flying Deuces | Stan Laurel | Stan | 1939 | |
| Oliver Hardy | Ollie | |||
| French Foreign Legionaries | ||||
| State Department: File 649 | Caravan guard | 1949 | ||
| The Taste of Violence (Le goût de la violence) | Guerrillas | 1961 | ||
| Mata Hari, Agent H21 | French soldiers | 1964 | ||
| Shock Troops (Un homme de trop) | Charles Vanel | Passevin | 1967 | |
| Resistance fighters | ||||
| Bonnot's Gang (La bande à Bonnot) | French Zouaves and gendarmes | 1968 | ||
| The Intervention (Interventsiya) | French soldiers | 1969 | ||
| 100 Rifles | Mexican soldiers | 1969 | ||
| Two Mules for Sister Sara | French soldiers | 1970 | ||
| How I Unleashed World War II | French Foreign Legionnaires | 1970 | ||
| Papillon | Steve McQueen | Henri "Papillon" Charrière | 1973 | |
| Dustin Hoffman | Louis Dega | |||
| Robert Deman | Maturette | |||
| French soldiers and Penal Colony guards | ||||
| March or Die | Terence Hill | Marco Segrain | 1977 | |
| Hold-Up (Nalyot) | Aleksey Petrenko | "The Uncle" | 1993 | |
| Twelve Monkeys | French soldiers | 1995 | ||
| A Very Long Engagement | Gaspard Ulliel | Manech Langonnet | 2004 | |
| Clovis Cornillac | Benoît Notre-Dame | |||
| Denis Lavant | Francis "Six-Sous" Gaignard | |||
| Albert Dupontel | Célestin Poux | |||
| François Levantal | Thouvenel | |||
| French soldiers | ||||
| Joyeux Noël | Dany Boon | Private Ponchel | 2005 | |
| Mickey Dedaj | Le couturier | |||
| Lucas Belvaux | Gueusselin | |||
| Philippe Beautier | Morallec | |||
| French soldiers | ||||
| Papillon | French Penal Colony guards | 2018 |
Television
| Title | Actor | Character | Note | Date |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| The Road to Calvary (Khozhdenie po mukam) | Soldiers of Russian Expeditionary Force in France | Ep.3 | 1977 | |
| Three Days of June | French Colonial soldiers | 2004 | ||
| 14 - Diaries of the Great War | Mikaël Fitoussi | Louis Barthas | 2014 | |
| French soldiers | ||||
| Les Fusillés | Grégoire Leprince-Ringuet | Louis | 2015 | |
| French soldiers | ||||
| Clash of Futures | French and German soldiers | 2018 |
Video Game
| Game Title | Appears as | Note | Release Date |
|---|---|---|---|
| Battle of Empires: 1914-1918 | "Lebel-Berthier" | 2014 | |
| Verdun | "Fusil Mle. 1907/15 Berthier" | 2015 | |
| Tannenberg | "Fusil Mle. 1907/15 Berthier" | Romanian Update | 2019 |
| Beyond The Wire | "Berthier Fusil Mle 1907/15" | 2022 |
Fusil Modèle 1907-16 Rifle
The Berthier Model 1907-16 Rifle appears in the following movies and TV series:
Film
| Title | Actor | Character | Note | Date |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Verdun: Visions of History | French soldiers | 1928 | ||
| Sergey Lazo | Imperial Japanese Army soldiers | 1968 | ||
| Fort Saganne | French and Arabic soldiers | 1984 | ||
| The Water Diviner | Greek soldier | 2014 | ||
| The Fear | Nino Rocher | Gabriel Dufour | 2015 | |
| French soldiers |
Television
| Title | Actor | Character | Note | Date |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Three Days of June | French Colonial soldiers | 2004 | ||
| 14 - Diaries of the Great War | A French soldier | 2014 | ||
| Deadline Gallipoli | French soldiers and West-African Troops | 2015 |
Video Game
| Game Title | Appears as | Note | Release Date |
|---|---|---|---|
| Forgotten Hope 2 | "FR Berthier Mle 16" | Iron sights and APX Mle 1921, added in v2.6 (2022) | 2014 |
| Battle of Empires: 1914-1918 | "Lebel-Berthier mle1916" | 2015 |
Fusil Modèle 1916 Carabine
The Berthier Model 1916 Carabine appears in the following movies and TV series:
Film
| Title | Actor | Character | Note | Date |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| The Battle of the Rails (La bataille du rail) | French Resistance fighters, German soldiers | 1946 | ||
| Canal (Kanal) | Seen among captured Polish weapons | 1957 | ||
| Weekend at Dunkirk | French soldiers | 1964 | ||
| Ho! | Gendarmes | 1968 | ||
| The Pariah (La Scoumoune) | Prison guards | 1972 | ||
| Baba Yaga, Devil Witch | Isabelle De Funès | Valentina Rosselli | 1973 | |
| The Hostage Gang (Le gang des otages) | French gendarmes | 1973 | ||
| Borsalino and Co. | French soldiers | 1974 | ||
| Black Thursday | French gendarmes | 1974 | ||
| The Gang (Le Gang) | French gendarmes | 1977 | ||
| Drummer-Crab (Le Crabe-Tambour) | African tribesmen | 1977 | ||
| The Escape (La carapate) | French gendarmes | 1978 | ||
| From Hell to Victory | George Hamilton | Maurice Bernard | 1979 | |
| Operation Leopard (La légion saute sur Kolwezi) | Seen on the wall | 1980 | ||
| The Fugitives | French gendarmes | 1986 | ||
| The Prince of the Pacific (Le prince du Pacifique) | French sailors | 2000 | ||
| Hotel Rwanda | An Interahamwe militiaman | 2004 | ||
| Outside the Law | French shopkeeper | 2010 | ||
| French riot police | ||||
| Battle of Warsaw 1920 | Natasza Urbanska | Ola Raniewska | 2011 | |
| Polish soldiers | ||||
| Day of the Falcon (Or noir) | Sultan's guards, Auda´s men | 2011 | ||
| The Water Diviner | Turkish soldier | 2014 | ||
| White Soldier | French soldiers | 2014 | ||
| To the Ends of the World (Les confins du monde) | Vietnamese soldiers of French colonial troops | 2018 | ||
| An Officer and a Spy (J'Accuse) | French gendarmes | 2019 |
Television
| Title | Actor | Character | Note | Air Date |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Bors | French mounted policemen | Ep. 10 "A papagáj akció" (Operation Parrot); Stock footage | 1968 | |
| Nestor Burma - Season 3 | A French gendarme | "Brouillard au pont de Tolbiac" (S3E5) | 1994 | |
| The Somme | David Bertrand | Fraisse | 2005 | |
| Jean-David Beroard | Barberon | |||
| French soldiers | ||||
| Three Days of June | French soldiers | 2004 | ||
| Verdun: Descent into Hell | Johannes Oliver Hamm | Charles Delvert | 2005 | |
| French soldiers | ||||
| Babylon Berlin - Season 1 | French soldiers | Ep. 07 | 2017 | |
| 1918: Uprising of the Sailors | Lucas Prisor | Karl Artelt | 2018 | |
| German sailors | ||||
| Hotel Europa | French soldiers | Ep. 01 | 2022 |
Video Games
| Game Title | Appears as | Notation | Release Date |
|---|---|---|---|
| Battlefield: 1918 | "Berthier Carbine" | 2004 | |
| Forgotten Hope 2 | "Mousqueton Berthier Mle 16" | Added in v2.6 (2022) | 2007 |
| Verdun | ""Mousqueton Mle. 1892 M16 Berthier" " | 2015 | |
| Hot Dogs, Horseshoes & Hand Grenades | “Berthier Carbine” | 2016 | |
| Post Scriptum | Introduced in Plan Jaune update | 2018 | |
| Enlisted | 2021 |
Anime
| Title | Character | Note/Episode | Air Date |
|---|---|---|---|
| Noir | Chief Thibault | Ep. 22: Journey's End (Tabiji no Hate) | 2001 |
| Lupin Zero | Gaucho | Ep. "Young Lupin Calls Himself "the Third" | 2022 - 2023 |
| Viet Minh soldiers |
Fusil Modèle 1907-15 M34 Rifle
After the Lebel M1886/93/27 was deemed a failure, a very similar conversion was developed based on more suitable Berthier rifles. Since the fundamentally new MAS-36 was adopted shortly after, about 80,000 of M34s were produced before they were discontinued.
The Berthier Model 1907-15 M34 Rifle appears in the following movies:
Film
| Title | Actor | Character | Note | Date |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Sadsacks Go to War (Les Bidasses s'en vont en guerre) | French soldiers | 1974 | ||
| The Escape (La carapate) | French riot police | 1978 |
Television
| Title | Actor | Character | Note | Date |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Fantômas | French Police | Ep.2 | 1980 |
Video Game
| Game Title | Appears as | Note | Release Date |
|---|---|---|---|
| Forgotten Hope 2 | "FR Berthier Mle 07-15 M34" | Added in v2.6 (2022) | 2007 |