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Traité de l'art de faire des armes

Treatise 1820 French France

Louis Justin Lafaugere

L-block staging entry validated for model fit. Imported from staging batch duell-thimm-l, source entry 1181. [2026-07-18 editorial enrichment: authority normalized to full personal name.]

Gelli confirms that the 1820 Lyon treatise, the 1825 Paris issue with portrait, and the Roret manual witness he explicitly places in 1838 belong to one Lafaugere work family. The catalogue therefore consolidates these edition shells under a single work record rather than exposing multiple public works for the same treatise tradition.

Vigeant 1882 presents the 1820 Lyon Lafaugere treatise as a distinctive and highly personal method, remarkable for its difficult hand displacements and point-work, even if not easily imitated by ordinary students.

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Bibliographic Overview
TitleTraité de l'art de faire des armes
AuthorLouis Justin Lafaugere
Earliest publication date1820
LanguageFrench
CountryFrance
Document typeTreatise
Authority Roles
Author
Louis Justin Lafaugere
Edition History
Traite de l'art de faire des armes 1820
CityLyon
PublisherNot specified
PrinterNot specified
Format
PagesNot specified
DimensionsNot specified
Lyon, 1820. Gelli confirms the original Lafaugere treatise with two folding plates, the dedication to the baron d'Ivry, and the notice historique.

Vigeant 1882, pp. 78-79: Lyon, 1820. Sold by the author, rue Mulet no. 22, at 6 francs. In-8vo with two folding outline plates, dedication to the baron d'Ivry, and a historical notice; Vigeant stresses the highly personal and difficult method.
Traité de l'art de faire des armes — nouvelle édition corrigée 1825
CityParis
PublisherGarnier
PrinterBouchard
Format
PagesXVI, 352, [1] p.
Dimensions22 cm
Duplicate 1825 shell imported from Biblioteca do Desporto / IPDJ. Moved under the consolidated Lafaugere work family rather than kept as a separate public work.

Quality phase 101p: manifestation label added to distinguish a legitimate same-year state.

Garnier is recorded as publisher/bookseller and Bouchard as printer; the former separate rows represented the same 1825 manifestation.

Duplicate manifestation 1409 consolidated in quality phase 151 (2026-08-15). Alternate imported title: Traité de l'art de faire des armes — Bouchard issue. Preserved source note: Paris, 1825, imprimerie Bouchart. Gelli says this second reprint differs from the 1820 witness chiefly by the author's portrait.

Vigeant 1882, p. 79: a second edition of the Lafaugere treatise was printed at Paris in 1825 by Bouchard, with a military portrait of the author.

Quality phase 101p: manifestation label added to distinguish a legitimate same-year state.
Nouveau manuel complet d'escrime, ou, Traité de l'art de faire des armes 1838
CityParis
PublisherLibrairie encyclopédique de Roret
PrinterNot specified
Format18°
Pagesvii, 280 p.
Dimensions15 cm
Witness imported from Online Books Page / HathiTrust armes/armas search.

Quality phase 106: the 1838 issue is confirmed as Paris, Roret, in-18; pagination remains empty because no exact printed collation was established.

Quality phase 117: Paris 1838 manifestation: vii, 280 pages and four folded leaves of plates, illustrated; 15 cm.
Nouveau manuel complet d'escrime; ou, Traité de l'art de faire des armes 1865
CityParis
PublisherLibrairie encyclopédique de Roret
PrinterNot specified
Format18°
Pages344 p.
DimensionsNot specified
Witness imported from Online Books Page / HathiTrust armes/armas search.

Quality phase 106: the exact 1865 Paris Roret in-18 issue is confirmed at 344 pages and distinguished from the shorter 1838 text.
Nouveau manuel complet d'escrime 1884
CityParis
PublisherRoret
PrinterNot specified
Format18°
PagesNot specified
DimensionsNot specified
Paris, 1884, Roret. This later refondue Roret witness remains within the broader Lafaugere treatise family; Gelli's page in the current batch explicitly points back to the earlier same-family Roret line of 1838.
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Scholarly References
Gelli entry GEL-P416-E001
Gelli (1890)
Jacopo Gelli, Bibliografia generale della scherma con note critiche, biografiche e storiche.
Pages 416 · Entry GEL-P416-E001
Gelli entry GEL-P417-E001
Gelli (1890)
Jacopo Gelli, Bibliografia generale della scherma con note critiche, biografiche e storiche.
Pages 417 · Entry GEL-P417-E001
Gelli entry GEL-P417-E002
Gelli (1890)
Jacopo Gelli, Bibliografia generale della scherma con note critiche, biografiche e storiche.
Pages 417,418 · Entry GEL-P417-E002
Thimm entry 1205
Thimm (1896)
Carl A. Thimm, A Complete Bibliography of Fencing and Duelling.
Pages 181 · Entry 1205
Thimm entry 1206
Thimm (1896)
Carl A. Thimm, A Complete Bibliography of Fencing and Duelling.
Pages 181 · Entry 1206
Thimm entry 1208
Thimm (1896)
Carl A. Thimm, A Complete Bibliography of Fencing and Duelling.
Pages 182 · Entry 1208
Vigeant entry VIG-P078-E001
Vigeant (1882)
Arsène Vigeant, La Bibliographie de l'escrime ancienne et moderne. Paris: Imprimé par Motteroz, 1882.
Pages 78-79 · Entry VIG-P078-E001