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French traveller known from a 1672 account of a journey to the British Isles, including an eyewitness description of bloody prize-fighting at the Bear Garden in Southwark. No further identity is securely established.
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French master of cane, staff, fencing and French boxing, active as an instructor in Paris. Louis Leboucher published an influential illustrated method for learning cane fighting in twenty-five lessons.
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French fencing master and author of Les vrays principes de l’espée seule, published at Amsterdam in 1742.
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French-born English army officer, courtier and diplomat who became 2nd Earl of Feversham. The fencing bibliography attributes to him a late-seventeenth-century manuscript exercise for the King’s dragoon regiment.
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French officer, historian, genealogist, and military writer whose works belong to the wide field of early modern military literature. In the bibliography at hand he appears through a treatise on arms, machines of war, and fireworks, which places him at the intersection of martial instruction, military science, and gentlemanly technical culture.
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French magistrate and legal writer, serving as substitut du procureur du Roi at Cusset in 1840; author of a study proposing penal measures against duelling.
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French author of L’Oncle Ernest, a volume whose pages 125–152 contain the episode Un Duel with drawings by Guy Thomery.
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French-born fencing master who served in the Franco-Prussian War, trained at Joinville-le-Pont and taught in New York and Boston. Louis Rondelle became fencing master of the Boston Athletic Association and wrote Foil and Sabre for an American readership.
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Louis Senac is represented in the reviewed catalogue records as author of “The art of fencing” (1904). No additional biographical identity or secure life dates are asserted beyond these linked manifestations.
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French physician in Montpellier and pupil of the fencing master Jean-Louis Michel. He wrote the 1866 Notice biographique sur Jean-Louis et son École, which was published anonymously but is attributed to him by local cataloguing and historical research.
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King of France from 1715 to 1774. Louis XV succeeded Louis XIV as a child and, as issuing sovereign, promulgated the February 1723 royal edict against duelling represented by the linked work.
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