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Belgian-born fencing master who served at the United States Naval Academy from 1865 for nearly five decades and was commissioned a first lieutenant in the United States Marine Corps. He authored naval manuals on broadsword and small-sword exercise.
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Belgian physician or writer identified as “le docteur A. Vanderlinde”, author of the 1866 Brussels pamphlet Le duel. No safe expansion of the initial or life dates has been established.
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Flemish engraver and publisher active in Cologne, creator of the copperplates for Omnium poene gentium imagines and other sixteenth-century costume books.
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Belgian lawyer, magistrate and legal writer, born at Liège and deceased at Brussels; author of the 1841 legislative commentary on duelling.
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Belgian fencing author of La Science de l’escrime, published at Brussels in 1888 with fifteen phototype plates.
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Belgian French-language writer represented by Le Cycle de l’Épée, the verse prologue to Georges Eekhoud’s L’Escrime à travers les Âges.
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Belgian magistrate and writer associated with Namur and Liège. François Charles Joseph Grandgagnage pursued archaeology, history and place-name studies alongside his judicial career and published literary and political works, including a letter on duelling.
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Burgundian chronicler, poet, diplomat, and former soldier whose writings are central to the literary and political culture of chivalry in the fifteenth century. He belongs in this database as a major witness to honour, war, arms, and aristocratic martial identity rather than as a technical writer on combat instruction.
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Belgian French-language novelist and poet; author of the historical tableaux in L’Escrime à travers les Âges.
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Liège captain and fencing master who authored Principes et quintessence des armes, published in 1754 with twenty engraved plates.
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Flemish humanist, classical philologist and political thinker whose scholarship helped shape Renaissance Stoicism. Justus Lipsius examined Roman gladiatorial practice in the Saturnalium sermonum libri duo.
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Belgian author known here from Études de genre, published at Antwerp in 1882 and containing a chapter on the duel. The consulted evidence does not safely expand the initial.
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