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R.A. Dambreville

Master of Arms

French fencing master and author of the earliest known printed manual on cane fencing (1811).

Quick Facts

Date of Birth18. století
Date of Death19. století
Era18th–19th century
Country of OriginFranceFrance
Rank / TitleAuthor of first La Canne manual (1811)
Active Years1800–1820

Biography

R.A. Dambreville authored Traité d'Escrime à la Canne in Paris in 1811, creating the first formal printed instructional text for cane self-defense.

Associated Martial Arts

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French walking-stick fencing. It grew out of nineteenth-century Parisian self-defence; Maurice Sarry turned it into today's sport in the 1970s.