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This little text (only three-and-a-half thousand words) is the source of a large amount of confusion among fencing historians. In this foreword, I wish to delve into a few of the questions that this interesting work raises; though I can offer no hard answers, I hope to contribute something to its study. The most puzzling… Continue reading Translation: Le Perche du Coudray’s salle play →

The text that follows is the product of a collaboration between two largely forgotten figures in the history of historical fencing. I use this unwieldy term advisedly – while Georges Dubois (1865-1934) and Albert Lacaze (1880-1960) were masters of the fencing of their day, they also played an interesting role in reconstructing the practices of… Continue reading Dubois on Lacaze: A new treatise on “ambidextrous fencing” in translation →