thanks for the response VintageRide.

dddd - thank you for posting your Christophe. had been wondering about it since it is listed by your avatar. also owned one which i dated at ~1954. it was quite different from yours as it was an obvious Automoto manufacture. had the tubular crown with the cloverleaf emblem. mechs were Freres Huret. a base model looking example roughly parallel to a UO8 for its day. happily, found it all original and undamaged. came from a community college flea market back in the mid-eighties. no pictures.