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French nobleman of the Nivernais, described in contemporary ecclesiastical proceedings as the Baron de Druy, and author of La beauté de la valeur et la lâcheté du duel, approved by the Assembly of the Clergy of France in 1657 and published in Paris in 1658.
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French fencing master active in Paris in the 1860s and 1870s; consulted authority sources identify him only as Cordelois.
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Fencing master attached to the French royal academies and author of the Paris manual L’escrime pratique (1765), a concise exposition of small-sword principles.
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French author known from the fifty-page anti-duelling pamphlet Du Duel, printed at Algiers in 1878; fuller forenames remain unverified.
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Stage name of Antoine-Jean Bourlin, a French actor, playwright and theatre director; librettist of the one-act comédie mêlée d’ariettes Le Duel de Bambin.
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French playwright and librettist who collaborated with Lockroy. Their Un duel sous le cardinal de Richelieu was first staged and printed in Paris in 1832 and later circulated in translation.
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French writer, poet, dramatist and periodical editor. Under the pseudonym Ferréus he compiled the Annuaire du duel, 1880–1889, published in 1891.
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French fencer, sports writer and African explorer; author of Les lois du duel.
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French fencing master and historian from the Mérignac fencing family, brother of the celebrated master Louis Mérignac. Émile Mérignac authored the two-volume Histoire de l’escrime dans tous les temps et dans tous les pays, issued in 1883 and 1886.
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French playwright and librettist, also known as Théaulon de Lambert, and co-author of Cinq heures du soir, ou le Duel manqué (1827).
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French lawyer, humanist and historian whose Recherches de la France discuss judicial combat and gages de bataille. The catalogue manifestation is the two-volume 1723 collected edition.
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French jurist, public official and scholar of legal history and international maritime law. Eugène François Cauchy examined the origins, customs and contemporary legal status of duelling in his two-volume study Du duel.
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