Rouet

It is not a conventional matchlock, as historians have written, but a complex and very costly arquebuse à rouet, a wheel-lock arquebus. ❋ Unknown (2008)

In 1639–42, the average value of an arquebus à rouet was 80 livres; flintlock muskets were valued at 6 livres. ❋ David Hackett Fischer (2008)

The arquebuse à rouet was an advanced model of a very costly weapon. ❋ David Hackett Fischer (2008)

Inventories of weapons at Quebec refer explicitly to the presence of “harquebuses à rouet.” ❋ David Hackett Fischer (2008)

The technology that produced the arquebuse à rouet also led to the development of wheel-lock pistols, which were larger than modern handguns but small enough to be hidden in clothing. ❋ David Hackett Fischer (2008)

In short, Champlain fought at Lake Champlain, and probably at the Rivière des Iroquois and the Onondaga Village, with an arquebuse à rouet that was fired by a wheel lock. ❋ David Hackett Fischer (2008)

In 1609–10, Champlain fought the Mohawk with this arquebuse à rouet, a wheel lock weapon that did not require a burning match. ❋ David Hackett Fischer (2008)

The wheel lock, or rouet, may have been invented by Johann Kiefuss in Germany in 1517. ❋ David Hackett Fischer (2008)

A Quebec inventory in that year listed four “harquebuses à rouet” and forty “mousquets avec leurs bandoliers.” ❋ David Hackett Fischer (2008)

Mais, outre cela, la solicitude de bien faire, et cette contention de l'ame trop bandée et trop tendue à son entreprise, la met au rouet, la rompt, et l'empesche, ainsi qu'il advient à l'eau qui, par force de se presser de sa violence et abondance, ne peut trouver issue en un goulet ouvert. ❋ Unknown (2005)