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French physician and physiologist who studied exercise, fatigue and physical education. Fernand Lagrange also examined fencing as exercise and wrote the preface to Joseph Charlemont’s study of boxing and cane fighting.
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French fencing writer and self-described fencing master associated with a satirical duel-survival manual published in Paris in 1828 and translated into Italian and German. The forename remains unresolved.
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French army officer, fencing master and author; directed fencing instruction at Joinville and devised the sabre that bears his name.
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French writer on duelling and fencing history.
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French surgeon and writer who published on fencing and the épée under the pseudonym Claude La Marche. Georges-Marie Félizet combined a medical career with close observation of contemporary fencing culture.
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French anti-duelling writer to whom the bibliography attributes three distinct texts dated 1609, 1612 and 1629. No reliable authority source has yet expanded the initial or established life dates.
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French Huguenot theologian, historian, pastor and diplomat who worked in the Dutch Republic after 1685. His Dissertation historique sur les duels et les ordres de chevalerie first appeared in Amsterdam in 1720.
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French historian, jurist and magistrate from Clermont-Ferrand; wrote in French and Latin.
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King of France from 1643 to 1715; represented here as the issuing authority for royal edicts concerning duels.
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French fencing master and writer Jean-Louis-Laurent-Justin Lafaugère, commonly catalogued as Louis-Justin Lafaugère. He developed a distinctive post-Revolutionary method, published fencing treatises and verse, and was translated into Spanish by Antonio Marín.
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French soldier, courtier, traveller and memoirist, known as the seigneur de Brantôme. His writings are important witnesses to aristocratic warfare, honour and duelling culture.
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French fencing master known as Gomard, formerly instructor to the royal pages and other state institutions. His 1845 Théorie de l’escrime offered a systematic method and a substantial historical bibliography.
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