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English journalist, novelist, poet, art critic and popular historian. George Walter Thornbury wrote the first biography of J. M. W. Turner and the opening volumes of Old and New London, which include historical references to duelling.
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Burgundian chronicler, poet, diplomat, and former soldier whose writings are central to the literary and political culture of chivalry in the fifteenth century. He belongs in this database as a major witness to honour, war, arms, and aristocratic martial identity rather than as a technical writer on combat instruction.
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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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Belgian French-language novelist and poet; author of the historical tableaux in L’Escrime à travers les Âges.
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Genevan lawyer, professor of law and politician. His 1871 doctoral dissertation Le Duel examined duelling in law and society; his library and manuscripts formed the Fondation Fazy.
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Georges Guillet de Saint-Georges is represented in the reviewed catalogue records as author of “Les arts de l'homme d'épée ou le dictionnaire du gentilhomme” (1680). No additional biographical identity or secure life dates are asserted beyond these linked manifestations.
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Georges Robert is represented in the reviewed catalogue records as author of “La science des armes : l'assaut et les assauts publics : le duel et la leçon de duel” (1887). No additional biographical identity or secure life dates are asserted beyond these linked manifestations.
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Georges-Adrien Crapelet is represented in the reviewed catalogue records as author of “Cérémonies des gages de bataille selon les constitutions du bon roi Philippe de France” (1830). No additional biographical identity or secure life dates are asserted beyond these linked manifestations.
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Liège captain and fencing master who authored Principes et quintessence des armes, published in 1754 with twenty engraved plates.
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German pedagogue, philologist, and educational writer who also cultivated fencing and physical exercise as part of a broader reforming interest in bodily education. He is relevant to the project because his work belongs to the late Enlightenment and early modern-gymnastics milieu in which fencing was treated not only as combat skill but also as a structured pedagogical discipline.
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Gerolamo Giovanni Battista Christiani is represented in the reviewed catalogue records as author of “Compendio di Scherma” (Milano). No additional biographical identity or secure life dates are asserted beyond these linked manifestations.
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Giacomo Caimo is represented in the reviewed catalogue records as author of “Dejurebelli” (1678). No additional biographical identity or secure life dates are asserted beyond these linked manifestations.
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