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French author associated with `Les Secrets de l'Epée`, a late nineteenth-century work that treats fencing in a reflective and literary mode. He belongs to the broader nineteenth-century French culture in which martial expertise, salon writing, and historical curiosity could overlap in works addressed to both practitioners and cultivated readers.
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French legal and historical writer who examined duelling from moral, historical and legislative perspectives in Du duel, published at Paris in 1829.
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French fencing master from Rennes and author of Le maistre d’armes libéral (1653), an early treatise on the single sword and foil. The work is important in the transition toward the French smallsword school and distinguishes parry and riposte as separate actions.
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French moral and legal writer, styled sieur du Fréteil near Tournan-en-Brie. His Discours contre les duels (1618) belongs to the early seventeenth-century campaign against private combat and was dedicated to Cardinal du Perron.
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Charles Du Verger de Saint-Thomas is represented in the reviewed catalogue records as author of “Nouveau code du duel : histoire, législation, droit contemporain” (1879). No additional biographical identity or secure life dates are asserted beyond these linked manifestations.
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French dramatist and theatre director, fully named Jean-Joseph Charles Mourier and known by the pseudonym Valory. He co-wrote vaudevilles and popular stage works and directed the Théâtre des Folies-Dramatiques; Le Coup d’épée was created in Paris in 1830.
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French army officer and military writer. His Escrime du fusil applied bayonet fencing to light infantry tactics and was issued at Lyon in the early 1840s.
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French fencing author known from De la beauté de l’escrime de l’épée, a 1732 treatise dedicated to the duc de Villars. No reliable given name or civil dates have yet been established.
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French fencing writer known from Maximes et instructions sur l’art de tirer les armes, first issued at Saint Petersburg in 1775 and reissued at Leipzig in 1776 and 1799. His personal name remains unresolved.
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French-language writer and author of the Livre des faits d’armes et de chevalerie, translated and printed by William Caxton.
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French Jesuit, heraldist, antiquarian, and theorist of spectacle, ceremony, emblems, and courtly representation. He is relevant to the project as a contextual author in the study of heraldry, chivalric display, ceremonial arms, and the symbolic language surrounding martial honour rather than as a fencing master.
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Pseudonymous or initialled French colonel credited on the 1872 Paris treatise Annotations méthodiques et succinctes sur l’escrime. The consulted catalogues do not resolve the initials to a fuller identity.
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