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French fencing professor and author of Ma Méthode (1890), with a preface by Pierre de Coubertin; active in Paris fencing circles from the 1880s.
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French memoirist credited as author of the Mémoires du chevalier de Ravanne. His exact birth year remains uncertain.
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French writer to whom Buja, as cited by Thimm, attributes a printed fencing work in 1568; no surviving manifestation has yet been traced.
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French priest of Avize and clerical deputy to the Estates-General and National Constituent Assembly. In September 1790 he submitted and published an opinion advocating effective legislation against duelling.
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French historian, archaeologist, engineer-geographer and politician, best known for histories of Paris and French social customs.
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French magistrate, politician and author Jean Anthelme Brillat-Savarin, best known for Physiologie du goût. His legal and historical writings also included the 1819 Essai historique et critique sur le duel.
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Jean d'Espagne is represented in the reviewed catalogue records as author of “Anti-Duello” (1632). No additional biographical identity or secure life dates are asserted beyond these linked manifestations.
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French journalist, dramatist and founder of Le Mercure galant; his 1669 Nouvelles galantes, comiques et tragiques include a treatment of a duel.
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Medieval French chronicler, poet, and historian whose `Chroniques` are among the major narrative sources for chivalric culture, warfare, arms, and knightly conduct in the later Middle Ages. Within this database he is important less as a technical martial author than as a foundational witness to the social and literary world in which combat, honour, and arms display were understood.
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French fencing master active in London, where he kept a school in St Dunstan’s Court, Fleet Street. His bilingual Fencing Familiarized presented a simplified small-sword system and appeared in 1771 and in a revised 1780 edition.
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French medievalist, lexicographer and member of the Académie française. His Mémoires sur l’ancienne chevalerie first appeared in 1759 and became a major early history of chivalry.
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