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French fencing master, nephew and pupil of Augustin Grisier. Contemporary Parisian notices document his public assaults and teaching activity in the 1840s; the bibliography attributes to him a later newspaper component on duelling.
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French playwright and chansonnier whose works were staged in major Paris theatres. His one-act scene Un duel en chambre was published in 1889.
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Author or contributor recorded only under the name Félix in Thimm’s reference to a Paris encyclopaedia of 1773 at the article “Escrime”; fuller identification remains unresolved.
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French dramatist and novelist; author of Les Trente-deux duels de Jean Gigon, a five-act drama adapted from a novel by Armand Gandon.
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French fencing author associated with `Nouvelles et utiles observations pour bien tirer des armes`, a mid-eighteenth-century technical work on swordsmanship. He belongs to the mature smallsword era and appears as a practical pedagogical writer whose treatise circulated in print even though the surviving personal biography is slight.
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François Dancie is represented in the reviewed catalogue records as author of “Discours des armes” (1600). No additional biographical identity or secure life dates are asserted beyond these linked manifestations.
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French anti-duelling writer known from the 1791 Paris pamphlet Le Duel considéré dans tous les rapports historiques, moraux et constitutionnels.
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French Jesuit historian whose Histoire de la milice françoise (1721) includes discussion and illustrations relevant to arms and duelling.
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French magistrate, criminologist and sociologist whose work examined imitation, social behaviour and criminality. Gabriel Tarde directed criminal statistics at the Ministry of Justice and later held the chair of modern philosophy at the Collège de France; his study of duelling appeared in Spanish as El duelo.
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French journalist, writer and dramatist. Gaston Jollivet wrote literary and military-historical works and collaborated with fencing master Camille Prévost on L’escrime et le duel.
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French soldier, novelist and memoir writer best known for fictionalised historical memoirs. His Mémoires de Monsieur d’Artagnan first appeared in 1700 and became a major source for later literary treatments of the musketeers.
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French author, soldier, engineer and pioneering organiser of modern athletics. Georges de Saint-Clair helped develop the Racing Club de France and the Union des Sociétés Françaises de Sports Athlétiques and promoted outdoor and athletic education.
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