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French historian, biographer and journalist, known for prolific histories of the French monarchy, including works on the Reformation, the League, Henry IV and Richelieu.
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Parisian fencing master associated with court-sword instruction and the printed literature of eighteenth-century French fencing. Bibliographic evidence links him to `L'exercice des armes ou le maniement du fleuret`, though the publication history and dating of surviving editions are complicated and later than his death.
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French artist, lawyer, magistrate, naturalist and public administrator with sustained interests in mechanics, arms and military history. Jean-Baptiste-Louis Carré de Malberg authored and engraved Panoplie, prepared before the Revolution and published in two volumes in 1795.
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French army officer, later general, minister of war and senator. While serving in the Lyon military sphere he issued Leçons d’armes in 1869, a work recorded under his later rank in fencing bibliographies.
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French dramatist and theatre manager who wrote numerous melodramas, often in collaboration. As Eugène Cantiran de Boirie he co-authored Storb et Verner, ou Les suites d’un duel with P. G. A. Bonel for the Théâtre de la Porte-Saint-Martin in 1805.
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French playwright and prolific vaudeville author. With Jules-Joseph-Gabriel de Lurieu, writing as J. Gabriel, he wrote the one-act musical comedy La salle d’armes in 1843.
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French watercolourist, lithographer, art historian and playwright commonly published as Ernest Jaime. He contributed to Paris newspapers and collaborated on comedies and vaudevilles staged in leading nineteenth-century theatres.
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French cavalry officer and general who wrote on the Franco-Prussian War, cavalry tactics and the growing role of dismounted cavalry combat in modern warfare.
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French lawyer, poet, administrator and magistrate from Allauch. He became mayor during the Revolution and later president of the civil court of Marseille; in 1819 he published a proposal for legislation against duelling.
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French Sulpician priest, theologian and moral writer who directed seminaries and became parish priest of Saint-Sulpice in Paris in 1696. His widely reprinted Instructions pour un jeune seigneur concerns noble conduct and education.
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French fencing, savate and cane-fighting master who played a central role in codifying and teaching boxe française. Joseph Charlemont established an academy and published influential practical systems, including L’art de la boxe française et de la canne in 1899.
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French actor, playwright and theatre administrator born Joseph-Philippe Simon and known professionally as Lockroy. After acting at major Paris theatres, he concentrated on writing drama, vaudeville and opera libretti.
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