ARMORUM ARCHIVE
French fencing master whose practical teaching helped establish modern épée de combat. His lessons were recorded and edited by Émile André in Le Jeu de l’Épée (1887).
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French lawyer, magistrate and historical writer. His prize-winning 1838 memoir on duelling and legislation was written while he practised at the Royal Court of Paris.
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French playwright and librettist who wrote under the name J. Gabriel. He collaborated with Jean-François-Alfred Bayard on the 1843 comedy La salle d’armes.
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Le Maire is represented in the reviewed catalogue records as author of “L’exercice des armes” (1749). No additional biographical identity or secure life dates are asserted beyond these linked manifestations.
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French dramatist and co-author of the 1830 Paris vaudeville L’Épée, le Bâton et le Chausson.
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French cavalry officer, baron and military tactician who rose to general rank. He wrote on modern warfare, cavalry and bayonet combat; his 1859 French text was translated into German by Richard Stein in 1860.
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French traveller known from a 1672 account of a journey to the British Isles, including an eyewitness description of bloody prize-fighting at the Bear Garden in Southwark. No further identity is securely established.
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French master of cane, staff, fencing and French boxing, active as an instructor in Paris. Louis Leboucher published an influential illustrated method for learning cane fighting in twenty-five lessons.
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French fencing master and author of Les vrays principes de l’espée seule, published at Amsterdam in 1742.
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French officer, historian, genealogist, and military writer whose works belong to the wide field of early modern military literature. In the bibliography at hand he appears through a treatise on arms, machines of war, and fireworks, which places him at the intersection of martial instruction, military science, and gentlemanly technical culture.
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French magistrate and legal writer, serving as substitut du procureur du Roi at Cusset in 1840; author of a study proposing penal measures against duelling.
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French author of L’Oncle Ernest, a volume whose pages 125–152 contain the episode Un Duel with drawings by Guy Thomery.
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