Created from the Wiktenauer Books staging import for likely-missing late seventeenth-century and early eighteenth-century works. Source row 74.
Gelli treats Philibert de la Touche's book as one of the most beautiful and original French fencing treatises, noting its portrait, eighty-five engraved plates, royal letter, and strong technical interest despite later controversy around its theories.
Castle also records the Paris 1670 La Touche witness.
Vigeant 1882 places Philibert de la Touche among the principal and most curious masters of the old French school, praising the work's progress despite the controversy that surrounded some of its theory.
The former shell record TOUCHE (De La) has been folded into this canonical work so that bibliography references and edition evidence stay on a single public record.
Quality phase 164 (2026-08-15): two imported bibliography fragments (former works 2708 and 2711) were consolidated here; the false 1892 manifestation was a parser carry-over from a following Hutton cross-reference.