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French writer whose works on historical duelling include Les duellistes and Les drames de l’Épée.
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French Catholic cleric and author of a study opposing the duel in relation to the Church and the army.
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French physician and fencing author active in 1908–1909.
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French jurist, legal historian and politician; co-author with Paul Thureau-Dangin of Projet de loi sur le duel (1862).
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French fencing master appointed to train masters for the Russian Imperial Guard cavalry; author of the bilingual 1817 Traité sur la contrepointe, based on twenty-two years of practice and observation.
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French magistrate, antiquarian and learned-society officer. Alexandre-Maurice Fougeroux de Campigneulles studied law, served at Montreuil and Douai and published Histoire des duels anciens et modernes in 1835.
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French journalist, playwright and historian who participated in Louis-Napoléon Bonaparte’s 1840 Boulogne expedition. He wrote Physiologie du duel, first issued in 1853 and later expanded.
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French fencing master and specialist in foil, fully named Simon Nicolas Alphonse Kirchhoffer. A pupil of his father and Arsène Vigeant, he won major international competitions, received an Olympic silver medal in 1900 and authored the 1911 Larousse manual L’escrime: fleuret.
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French fencing master from Lorraine, born Abraham Racinot, who after study in Italy became fencing master to the ducal court of Lorraine and later a nobleman and state official. His `Discours de la theorie de la pratique et de l'excellence des armes` is an important early seventeenth-century French treatise and also a notable example of Italian fencing theory being adapted into French court culture.
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French fencing master André Wernesson, sieur de Liancour, author of Le Maistre d’armes (Paris, 1686), a treatise on the perfection of single-sword fencing.
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French courtier, soldier, educator and writer who served the Angevin and Luxembourg courts. Antoine de La Sale wrote on chivalric conduct and tournaments, acted as a tournament arbiter and produced literary works including Le Petit Jehan de Saintré.
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French soldier, lieutenant-general and military writer under Louis XIV. His posthumous military memoirs circulated widely and the 1735 English translation includes the bayonet glossary noted by Thimm.
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