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French government military ministry represented as the collective issuing authority for official infantry, gymnastics, sabre, lance and fencing instructions.
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French maître d'armes, fencing historian, bibliographer, and institutional figure in the Parisian fencing world. He was one of the most important late nineteenth-century historians of fencing and duelling literature, authoring bibliographical, historical, and commemorative works while also serving as president of the Académie d'Armes de Paris.
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French sporting writer known as the Baron de Vaux, author of works on duelling, fencing, pistol shooting and equestrian sport.
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French Army officer from Ajaccio, captain in the 44th line infantry regiment and author of military fencing instruction. His later catalogued work appeared posthumously.
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French military author and veteran associated with early nineteenth-century bayonet fencing. His École du tirailleur applied bayonet handling to infantry exercises and manoeuvres.
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French fencing journalist, instructor, and prolific author on epee, sabre, duelling, street self-defence, cane, and related combat disciplines. He was one of the most visible popularizers of fin-de-siecle French martial culture and helped bridge formal fencing, duel practice, and practical urban self-defence literature.
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French author of late-sixteenth- and early-seventeenth-century works on honour, valour and the suppression of duelling, including Discours des querelles et de l’honneur.
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French professional association of fencing masters founded in Paris on 31 December 1886, responsible for statutes and annual directories represented in this catalogue.
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French fencer, writer and researcher Adolphe Corthey, an early advocate of reconstructing historical swordsmanship and author of studies on contemporary fencing, military weapons and the history of the sword.
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French journalist, art critic, collector, fencer and writer. He published L’Art du duel, documented Parisian fencing rooms and contributed under several pseudonyms including Spada and Saint-Georges.
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French Protestant minister and military writer, possibly identifiable with François de Saillans, whose treatises discussed war and the legal and moral problem of the duel.
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French fencing master, born in London to French parents, who represented the classical French school and published an influential practical theory of foil fencing.
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