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French writer, journalist and former soldier. His successful 1860 novel Les Trente-deux duels de Jean Gigon was adapted for the stage by Ferdinand Dugué in 1861.
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French fencing master, son and pupil of Nicolas Texier de La Boëssière. His Traité de l’art des armes (1818) put into print the teaching tradition of his father and documented the method later associated with the French school and Jean-Louis Michel.
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French Reformed pastor and co-founder of the Diaconesses of Reuilly; while serving at Bordeaux he published the 1838 discourse Le duel.
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French general, marshal and military writer who published on cavalry swordsmanship and answered criticism of his mounted-fencing method.
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French chansonnier and vaudeville dramatist. With Paul Ledoux he wrote Le Duel et le Déjeuner, first performed and printed at Paris in 1818.
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French man of letters, art critic, press director and administrator of the Comédie-Française. His one-act comedy Le Duel de La Tour appeared in Paris in 1856.
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French fencing writer who prepared L’escrime rendue facile et classique from the lessons of the Paris fencing professor Lacrette.
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French journalist, novelist, dramatist and man of letters who used several pseudonyms, including Saint-Alme, Prosper and Viellerglé. Auguste Lepoitevin de L’Égreville founded and edited periodicals and collaborated widely on novels, historical plays and vaudevilles, including Le Coup d’épée.
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French maître d’armes and author whose career included military service, teaching in Saint Petersburg and Moscow, and instruction to the children of King Louis-Philippe. His 1847 Les armes et le duel combined fencing theory with historical and social discussion of duelling.
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French fencing author known only by the initial B. Bonnel. The Traité de l’art des armes combines historical discussion with instruction in épée, sabre, French boxing and cane, and circulated in Delarue editions around 1860 and 1890.
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French lawyer, poet, philologist and literary scholar from Dijon, also known for writing in Burgundian dialect. Bernard de La Monnoye won the Académie française’s first poetry prize in 1671 with Le duel aboli and was elected to the Académie in 1713.
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French author and sporting writer, author of Le Tir au pistolet.
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