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France invented the first production smokeless powder, Poudre B, in 1884. (There were experiments clear back to 1846.) I believe Mauser, in Germany, came out with a single-shot bolt-action 10 mm in 1888 that used Poudre B. Austria also produced rifles to use it the same year.

France is generally credited with the first smokeless powder military rifle in the Fusil Mle 1886 M93. Known as the Lebel for short.

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