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Jean d'Espagne is represented in the reviewed catalogue records as author of “Anti-Duello” (1632). No additional biographical identity or secure life dates are asserted beyond these linked manifestations.
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Jean de Brye is represented in the reviewed catalogue records as author of “L'art de tirer des armes, réduit en abrégé méthodique” (1721). No additional biographical identity or secure life dates are asserted beyond these linked manifestations.
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French journalist, dramatist and founder of Le Mercure galant; his 1669 Nouvelles galantes, comiques et tragiques include a treatment of a duel.
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Medieval French chronicler, poet, and historian whose `Chroniques` are among the major narrative sources for chivalric culture, warfare, arms, and knightly conduct in the later Middle Ages. Within this database he is important less as a technical martial author than as a foundational witness to the social and literary world in which combat, honour, and arms display were understood.
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Jean Louis Vaïsse is represented in the reviewed catalogue records as author of “Messie et journaliste, polémique philosophico-politique: étude philosophique et morale — Le duel” (1871). No additional biographical identity or secure life dates are asserted beyond these linked manifestations.
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French fencing master active in London, where he kept a school in St Dunstan’s Court, Fleet Street. His bilingual Fencing Familiarized presented a simplified small-sword system and appeared in 1771 and in a revised 1780 edition.
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French medievalist, lexicographer and member of the Académie française. His Mémoires sur l’ancienne chevalerie first appeared in 1759 and became a major early history of chivalry.
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French historian, biographer and journalist, known for prolific histories of the French monarchy, including works on the Reformation, the League, Henry IV and Richelieu.
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Parisian fencing master associated with court-sword instruction and the printed literature of eighteenth-century French fencing. Bibliographic evidence links him to `L'exercice des armes ou le maniement du fleuret`, though the publication history and dating of surviving editions are complicated and later than his death.
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French artist, lawyer, magistrate, naturalist and public administrator with sustained interests in mechanics, arms and military history. Jean-Baptiste-Louis Carré de Malberg authored and engraved Panoplie, prepared before the Revolution and published in two volumes in 1795.
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French army officer, later general, minister of war and senator. While serving in the Lyon military sphere he issued Leçons d’armes in 1869, a work recorded under his later rank in fencing bibliographies.
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