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French orientalist, historian, archaeologist and numismatist noted for research on Armenia and the medieval eastern Mediterranean. In 1857 he published a study of the sabre then attributed to Constantine XI.
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Victor Lhérie is represented in the reviewed catalogue records as author of “L’Épée, le Bâton et le Chausson” (1830). No additional biographical identity or secure life dates are asserted beyond these linked manifestations.
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Vidal de Saint-Urbain is represented in the reviewed catalogue records as author of “Le duel sous l’Ancien Régime et de nos jours” (1892). No additional biographical identity or secure life dates are asserted beyond these linked manifestations.
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Swedish Army officer, gymnastics and fencing instructor and major organiser of modern sport. Viktor Gustaf Balck helped found Swedish sporting institutions and was an original member of the International Olympic Committee.
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Italian fencing master active in London in the 1590s, where he became one of the best-known exponents of rapier fencing in Elizabethan England. His `His Practise, in Two Bookes` (1595) combines technical fencing instruction with a substantial treatment of honour and quarrels.
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Lyon writer identified as Vingtrinier aîné, associated with the 1889 fencing notice L’Escrime encore et toujours à Lyon; the bare duplicate heading formerly attached to Cavalcabo has been removed.
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French poet, soldier, translator and prose writer, author of Le vray et ancien usage des duels (1617).
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Italian fencing master of the Bolognese Lambertini family, son of Clemente Lambertini. Vittorio Lambertini published an illustrated theoretical-practical treatise on the modern Italian school of sword and sabre in 1870 and later taught in Russia.
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Voltaire is represented in the reviewed catalogue records as author of “Le Siècle de Louis XIV” (1785). No additional biographical identity or secure life dates are asserted beyond these linked manifestations.
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Retired German colonel credited as author of Anleitung zum Fechten mit dem Stoßdegen, a manual for officers’ fencing associations and military educational establishments published in Berlin in 1891. No forename has been verified.
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Prussian military writer who co-authored Die Gymnastik und die Fechtkunst in der Armee with von Scherff and Mertens in 1858. The sources reviewed supply no forename.
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Prussian military writer who co-authored Die Gymnastik und die Fechtkunst in der Armee with von Görne and Mertens in 1858. The reviewed sources supply no forename.
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