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French archivist and historian, born 10 July 1812 at Saint-Germain-de-Prinçay (Vendée) and died 3 July 1885 at Les Roches, Saint-Vincent-Sterlanges (Vendée). He qualified as an archiviste paléographe in 1839 and served as departmental archivist of Maine-et-Loire from 1841 to 1853. His scholarship concentrated on medieval charters and the history of Anjou, Poitou, Aunis, Saintonge, and Vendée.
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Peloquin is represented in the reviewed catalogue records as author of “Cabinet d'escrime de l'espee et poingnardt” (1608). No additional biographical identity or secure life dates are asserted beyond these linked manifestations.
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French fencing master and author of L’Escrime pratique au XIXe siècle (1893); he also served as an épée referee at the 1900 Olympic Games.
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French author known from the 1610 Lyon treatise Recherches sur les duels, dedicated to Charles de Créquy. His life dates remain unresolved; chronology excludes identification with the Académie française member born in 1603.
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French fencer and author; competed at Paris 1900 and won team épée gold and individual foil bronze at the 1906 Intercalated Games.
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French grammarian, lexicographer, encyclopaedist and publisher. Pierre Athanase Larousse developed educational works and directed the Grand dictionnaire universel du XIXe siècle, within which the linked record indexes the article on duelling.
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French writer, dramatist, translator and editor. He compiled Pièces intéressantes et peu connues, whose eighth volume includes the cited account of the Bruce–Sackville duel.
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French dramatist and theatre director, commonly cited as Pierre Carmouche; author of numerous vaudevilles and librettos, often in collaboration.
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French playwright, also credited as P. G. A. Bonel, who wrote comedies, vaudevilles and melodramas alone and with other dramatists. He co-authored Storb et Verner, ou Les suites d’un duel with Eugène Cantiran de Boirie in 1805.
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French master of arms and author of an ambitious eighteenth-century treatise that extends beyond small-sword play to pike, halberd, bayonet, staff, and military exercises. He belongs to the broad French tradition that linked salle instruction with military practical arts and highly illustrated printed pedagogy.
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French cavalry officer and military historian.
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