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CORNELL UNIVERSITY LIBRARY BOUGHT WITH THE INCOME OF THE SAGE ENDOWMENT FUND GIVEN IN 1891 BY HENRY WILLIAMS SAGE ^C^ NotmanPhoto. Go. Boston,Mass. LOUIS KONDELLE. FOIL AND SABRE a ©wmmar of dfcncins IN DETAILED LESSONS FOR PROFESSOR AND PUPIL BY LOUIS RONDELLE MAITRE d'aRMES AT THE BOSTON ATHLETIC ASSOCIATION AND THE HARVARD UNIVERSITY FENCING CLUB ILLUSTRATED BOSTON ESTES AND LAURIAT PUBLISHERS Copyright, 189$, By Louis Rondelle. John Wilson and Son, Cambridge, U.S.A. aaxvoiaaa ATiaaioaasaa si HIM/nOA SIHJ. 'Bjuauij^ JO anSfiafi .saaiuajf anajBut^ a^:^ AUTHOR'S PREFACE. A LIFIr-LONG study of the art of fencing, and a passionate love of its practice ; acareful observance of what seems to me the unfortunate methods of the self-entitled " Maitres " and " Professors " who assume to teach the art; a full appre- ciation of the certain and deep interest so rapidly growing up in America, together with the sincere wish I have that in my adopted country this splendid art may reach the same high — excellence which it has attained in my native land, have beguiled me into this effort to transcribe in the English lan- guage a concise and exhaustive treatise on the science of fencing as taught in Prance, particularly at the National Military School of Joinville-le-Pont, whose diploma I have the satisfaction and honor to hold. I have attempted in the following pages to show that there are, in this science, principles far deeper than mechanical movements, and to give those principles the intelligent ex- pression to which they are entitled. I would gladly base this, with other sciences, on the broad ground-work of professional dignity and capacity. AUTHOR'S PREFACE. vi Believing as I do that upon each of us there rests a dut}^ to contribute something to the pleasure or well-being of his fel- lows, I have in a modest way hoped to popularize a manly exercise, and to stimulate a higher taste for it among that large class of Americans wlio delight in intelligent athletics. I find myself greatly indebted to the Notman Photograjih Company and their painstaking thoroughness for the com- plete set of original pliotograpbs from which the plates of this volume were made. EDITOR'S PEEFACE. T GUIS RONDELLB was born at Cr^py-eu-Yalois, France, — ^ Jan. 31, 1854. He took part in the campaign of 1870- 71 as Zouave, Garibaldian Volunteer, and Franc-Tireur. He was conscripted, and re-entered the service in 1875 in the Ninth Regiment of Cliasseurs-a-Cheval ; sent to the Fencing Academy at Joinville-le-Pont (from which, since 1872, all the fencing-masters of theFrencharmy mustbe graduated),where he received his title of Maitre d'Armes (standing number two in generalcompetition),andwasappointedinstructoroffencing in the First Regiment of Chasseurs-a-Cheval. Honorably dis- missed from the service in 1879, he performed the necessary twenty-eight days of active service as a member of the reserve in October, 1881, with the Eighth Regiment of Chasseurs-a- Cheval arrived in New York, December, 1881, and became ; the instructor of the Knickerbocker Fencing Club, and later of the Manhattan Athletic Club, where he served until his appointment as fencing-master of the Boston Athletic Asso- ciation, in October, 1889.
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