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French magistrate, historian and political philosopher, fully named Charles-Louis de Secondat, baron de La Brède et de Montesquieu. His De l’esprit des lois first appeared anonymously at Geneva in 1748 and includes the discussion of judicial combat indexed in the linked English edition.
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French fencing master, pedagogue and writer who taught the chevalier de Saint-Georges and helped introduce protective fencing masks. His 1766 Observations defended the principles taught by the Paris masters against Danet.
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French playwright and librettist who collaborated with Michel Dieulafoy on Le Duel par la croisée, ou le Français à Milan, created at the Théâtre du Vaudeville in 1818.
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French writer on aristocratic conduct and military ethics. Nicolas Rémond des Cours is the modern library attribution for La Véritable politique des personnes de qualité, first issued anonymously at Paris in 1692 and later translated into English.
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French fencing master and retired captain active at Nantes, author of Essai sur l’art de l’escrime. His expanded forenames and life dates remain unresolved.
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French merchant, collector and art-market chronicler whose Collections et collectionneurs (1885) includes the notice on Arsène Vigeant’s fencing collection cited by Thimm.
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French novelist and dramatist, author of Le Fils du diable and numerous popular serial narratives; the cited novel contains a literary account of Grisier’s fencing salle and a lesson there.
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French local historian of fencing known from L’Escrime à Lyon, privately printed in 250 copies at Lyon in 1888 with a preface by François de Veyssière.
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French historian and archivist whose illustrated popular history Les armes et les armures appeared in Hachette’s Bibliothèque des merveilles in 1868.
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French dramatic author active in the early nineteenth century. With Armand Gouffé he wrote Le Duel et le Déjeuner, first staged in Paris in 1818.
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French historian and member of the Académie française; as a young jurist he co-authored Projet de loi sur le duel (1862) with Albert Desjardins.
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French dramatist identified as the author of Le maître d’armes, a comédie-vaudeville first performed at the Théâtre des Variétés in Paris on 6 December 1850. No secure life dates are presently known.
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