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French fencing master attached to the 25th Artillery Regiment and author of the 1879 Règlement d’une salle d’escrime. The reviewed source supplies only the surname.
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French fencing master, syndic of the Paris masters-at-arms and director of the École royale d’armes; author of L’Art des armes and its later editions.
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French artillery and cavalry officer, general, military author and senator of the Second Empire. Guillaume Stanislas Marey-Monge wrote the 1841 Mémoire sur les armes blanches, later translated into English as Memoir on Swords.
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French novelist, playwright, notary, municipal councillor and reserve officer; killed on active service in Champagne during the First World War.
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French novelist, short-story writer and journalist, central to literary naturalism and realism. Guy de Maupassant contributed the prefatory essay Le pistolet to Baron de Vaux’s Les tireurs au pistolet.
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H. Cavalcabo is represented in the reviewed catalogue records as author of “L'Escrime à Lyon” (1889). No additional biographical identity or secure life dates are asserted beyond these linked manifestations.
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French gentleman of Provence and one of the foundational printed authors of French fencing literature. He is chiefly important as the author of the first known French fencing treatise, published in 1573 and dedicated to Charles IX, which marks an early stage in the institutional and literary formation of the French school of arms.
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French journalist, polemicist and politician who participated in The Idler’s 1894 discussion “Duels and Duelling”.
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French gymnastics inspector and author of the extensive Manuel de gymnastique éclectique (1871), which covers pedagogical and advanced gymnastics as well as wrestling, skating, cane, French boxing, swimming and javelin. He later presided over the national shooting competition at Vincennes.
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French magistrate and statesman who served as advocate-general, procureur-général and Chancellor of France. The catalogue records the 1823 posthumous Lettres inédites as a host work containing an indexed passage on duelling.
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French contributor identified by the surname Henry in an archaeological-periodical article concerning historical fencing. No reliable expansion of the title-page name has been established.
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Provençal cleric and author, also transmitted under the names Honoré Bonet, Bonnor and Bouvet.
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