Created originally to replace the Lebel rifle, it never actually was able to do it due to the high production numbers of the Lebel and the quantity of French reservists. In WW2 they were the standard rifle of the French army, though when the war started the Lebels were called back into service and also saw use. It was used in WW1,the Spanish Civil War, the Polish Soviet war, the Rif war, and in the Greek-Turkish war (At least in the period that attains us).
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