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French courtier, soldier, educator and writer who served the Angevin and Luxembourg courts. Antoine de La Sale wrote on chivalric conduct and tournaments, acted as a tournament arbiter and produced literary works including Le Petit Jehan de Saintré.
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French soldier, lieutenant-general and military writer under Louis XIV. His posthumous military memoirs circulated widely and the 1735 English translation includes the bayonet glossary noted by Thimm.
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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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Fencing author known from the 1878 Pola manual Leitfaden zur praktischen Erlernung des Rappier- und Säbelfechtens; no firmer biographical identification has yet been established.
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German fencing master trained in the Kreußler tradition. Anton Friedrich Kahn taught academic fencing at Göttingen and later served as senior fencing master at Helmstedt; his 1739 manual combined instruction with a short history of the art.
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Austrian imperial lieutenant and fencing writer who, with Franz Gömmel, freely adapted René-Julien Châtelain’s treatise into German in 1819.
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Bavarian jurist, district judge and government official. Anton von Braunmühl worked in the administration of the Kingdom of Bavaria and published a legal study of duelling and Bavarian criminal legislation in 1826.
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Anton Weinberger is represented in the reviewed catalogue records as author of “Der Sport in Musterblättern für Kunst und Gewerbe” (1880). No additional biographical identity or secure life dates are asserted beyond these linked manifestations.
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Seventeenth-century Italian political and martial writer associated with L’Aquila. He published Pentateuco politico under the anagrammatic pseudonym Arenif Otonoli in the mid-1650s.
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Antonio Bernardi is represented in the reviewed catalogue records as author of “Episc. Casertani disputationes, in quibus monomachia astruituretevertitur” (1562). No additional biographical identity or secure life dates are asserted beyond these linked manifestations.
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