LongEdge Fencing

LongEdge Fencing concentrates on two area of period French swordsmanship. Use these pages the jumping off point for our interpretation of each. Each page also contains materials used in training sessions.

• Early Modern Rapier, and
• Nineteeth Century Sabre.

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• Gerolamo (Heironyme) Cavalcabo
• Patenostrier of Rome
• Pedro de Heredia (who copies large sections of both and extends on them)
• Camillo Agrippa
• Camillo Palladini – largely a repetition and commentary on Agrippa
• Charles Besnard – a text describing the use of something like a proto-smallsword.
• François Dancie

For pointe and countre-pointe on foot in the salle:

• Ministry of War “Fencing Manual” (1877)
• Romuald Brunet (1884)
• Louis Rondelle (1892)
• Joesph Tinguely “Manual of Contre-Pointe” (1856)
• Alexandre Valville (1817)

For more military instruction on horseback and on foot in formation:

• Ivanowski (1834) “Nouveau système d'escrime pour la cavalerie”
• Citoyen Bertrand (1801) "Fencing Applied to the Military Art"

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