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Catalogue authority heading MERLE, associated in the reviewed records as author of “Authority cross-reference: Mellesville”. The surviving sources used by this catalogue do not support a safe expansion of the heading or secure life dates; it is retained explicitly as an unresolved historical attribution.
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Catalogue authority heading MERLIN, associated in the reviewed records as author of “Indexed reference: Rondonneau / Merlin”. The surviving sources used by this catalogue do not support a safe expansion of the heading or secure life dates; it is retained explicitly as an unresolved historical attribution.
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Prussian military writer who co-authored Die Gymnastik und die Fechtkunst in der Armee with von Görne and von Scherff in 1858. The reviewed sources supply no forename.
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Metropolitan Police is represented in the reviewed catalogue records as author of “A Manual of Drill and Sword Exercise, Prepared for the Use of the County and District Constables” (1868). No additional biographical identity or secure life dates are asserted beyond these linked manifestations.
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Catalogue authority heading MEYER, associated in the reviewed records as author of “Das Fechten des Cavalleristen mit den blanken Waffen, zu Fuss und zu Pferde” (1859). The surviving sources used by this catalogue do not support a safe expansion of the heading or secure life dates; it is retained explicitly as an unresolved historical attribution.
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Meyers Konversations-Lexikon is represented in the reviewed catalogue records as author of “Encyclopedia component: Fechtkunst in Meyers Konversations-Lexikon” (Leipzig). No additional biographical identity or secure life dates are asserted beyond these linked manifestations.
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Mich. Isnardi is represented in the reviewed catalogue records as author of “Theoret.-prakt. Anleitung zur Fechtkunst à la Contrepointe. Nebst einer Anleitung zur Vertheidigung mit dem Säbel oder Degen gegen den Bajonnetisten von Tallhofer. Mit 1 Heft Figuren” (1838). No additional biographical identity or secure life dates are asserted beyond these linked manifestations.
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German citizen of Zeitz and Freifechter who published an illustrated rapier manual at Leipzig in 1611. A possible Wittenberg matriculation in 1589 is not sufficient to establish life dates.
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French fencing master and author of L’art de l’escrime, published in Paris in 1885. The illustrated manual addresses fencing technique for a late nineteenth-century readership and is catalogued under his full authority form by the Bibliothèque nationale de France.
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French playwright and librettist who collaborated with Nicolas Gersin on the one-act vaudeville Le Duel par la croisée, ou le Français à Milan, first performed at the Théâtre du Vaudeville on 17 January 1818.
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French dramatist and librettist whose Le philosophe sans le savoir supplied the source text for William O’Brien’s The Duel.
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Italian writer whose anti-duelling study Il duello e la moderna civiltà appeared in 1870 and in a substantially enlarged edition in 1879.
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