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French-born fencing master who served in the Franco-Prussian War, trained at Joinville-le-Pont and taught in New York and Boston. Louis Rondelle became fencing master of the Boston Athletic Association and wrote Foil and Sabre for an American readership.
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French physician in Montpellier and pupil of the fencing master Jean-Louis Michel. He wrote the 1866 Notice biographique sur Jean-Louis et son École, which was published anonymously but is attributed to him by local cataloguing and historical research.
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King of France from 1715 to 1774. Louis XV succeeded Louis XIV as a child and, as issuing sovereign, promulgated the February 1723 royal edict against duelling represented by the linked work.
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French actor and dramatist. Under the name L.-H. Dancourt he wrote Jacquot et Colas, duellistes, a one-act prose comedy first performed in 1781 and printed in 1783.
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French historian, archaeologist and ethnologist whose studies of Lille and medieval Flanders include L’Épervier d’or on the Épinette jousts and tournaments.
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French dramatist, author of Le Duel and numerous comedies and lyrical works.
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French woman of letters and salonnière, remembered especially for her extensive correspondence with Horace Walpole and other leading figures of the Enlightenment.
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French entomologist, traveller, novelist and historian with a specialist interest in Renaissance arms and armour. Maurice Maindron combined scientific fieldwork and literary writing with the illustrated study Les Armes.
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French fencing master and author of L’art de l’escrime, published in Paris in 1885. The illustrated manual addresses fencing technique for a late nineteenth-century readership and is catalogued under his full authority form by the Bibliothèque nationale de France.
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French playwright and librettist who collaborated with Nicolas Gersin on the one-act vaudeville Le Duel par la croisée, ou le Français à Milan, first performed at the Théâtre du Vaudeville on 17 January 1818.
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French dramatist and librettist whose Le philosophe sans le savoir supplied the source text for William O’Brien’s The Duel.
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