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Parisian fencing master associated with court-sword instruction and the printed literature of eighteenth-century French fencing. Bibliographic evidence links him to `L'exercice des armes ou le maniement du fleuret`, though the publication history and dating of surviving editions are complicated and later than his death.
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French officer, historian, genealogist, and military writer whose works belong to the wide field of early modern military literature. In the bibliography at hand he appears through a treatise on arms, machines of war, and fireworks, which places him at the intersection of martial instruction, military science, and gentlemanly technical culture.
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French fencing author associated with a later eighteenth-century `Nouveau traité de l'art des armes`. He appears to belong to the practical instructional milieu of pre-Revolutionary French fencing, though the surviving biographical footprint is currently much weaker than the work attribution.
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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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French master of arms active in Paris and author of `Les Vrais Principes de l'Espée Seule`, one of the crucial transitional works in the move from rapier culture toward the smallsword. His treatise is significant for court fencing under Louis XIV and for the early printed articulation of practices associated with the foil and the lighter thrusting sword.
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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 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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