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French journalist, playwright, librettist and sports columnist, also known by the pseudonym Robert Milton. Albert de Saint-Albin promoted fencing and documented the masters and fencing rooms of nineteenth-century Paris.
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French fencing master associated with the Musketeers of the French royal household and author of the 1782 Traité en raccourci sur l’art des armes.
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Parisian lawyer, royal counsellor, historian and heraldic writer best known for Le Théâtre d’honneur et de chevalerie, a large study of military orders, arms, blazon, duels, jousts and tournaments.
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French fencing master associated with L’escrime appliquée à l’art militaire (1801) and later named as president of the Société d’armes de Paris in an 1827 rules publication.
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French journalist and writer associated with Le Gaulois, author of literary and club-life works containing discussions of duelling.
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French fencing master and former adjutant-major, author of two documented instructional works issued in 1830 and 1843.
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French painter, watercolourist, engraver, lithographer and illustrator. Édouard de Beaumont contributed widely to illustrated publishing and brought his antiquarian interest in arms, costume and chivalric imagery to Fleurs des belles épées.
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French nobleman in the service of Jean d’Anjou and author of a fifteenth-century text transmitted in the later collection of judicial-duel, tournament and pas d’armes treatises.
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French jurist, politician and fencer; founder of the Société d'encouragement à l'escrime.
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French editor and historian of fencing who published the statutes of the Paris masters-at-arms and compiled Archives des maîtres d’armes de Paris from institutional and archival documents.
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French fencing master sent to the University of Ingolstadt by the Elector of Bavaria. His bilingual 1721 manual synthesized Italian, German, Spanish and French practice.
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French fencing master of the city and academy of Toulouse. He published influential practical works on smallsword fencing in 1696 and 1701; his earlier 1690 witness and Andrew Mahon’s 1735 English translation belong to the same work family.
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